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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
7th Company
Enlistment:
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William James and Isabella Beecroft, of 61st Street East, Edmonton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Harvey Taylor Beecroft
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bea to Belisle. Mircoform Sequence 7; Volume Number 31829_B016717. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 151. Page 541 of 724. -
Photo of Harvey Beecroft
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Photo of Harvey Taylor Beecroft
Lt Harvey Beecroft attended St Andrew's College from 1912 to 1913. This photo was in the June 1919 Memorial Issue of The Review. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Edmonton Morning Bulletin October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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