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Rifleman Ronald Robert Beacroft

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Military service

Service number: B/87858
Age: 19
Rank: Rifleman
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth: October 10, 1922 Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment: September 10, 1941 Toronto, Ontario
Death: December 19, 1941 Lye Mun Gap, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

SAI WAN MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Column 24.
Additional information
Son of Roy Beacroft and Annie Elizabeth Hesp. Roy is a Veteran of the British Army and fought during the First World War. Brother of Kenneth Stanley Beacroft, service number B-110618, 1st Canadian Signals Reinforcement Unit, who served in Europe during the Second World War and survived the war.

Ronald served with the Lincoln and Welland Regiment from 1 September to 9 November 1939, with the 1st Canadian Infantry (Rifle) from 10 November 1939 to 8 June 1940, with the 2nd District Depot, Dufferin and Haldiman Rifles from 10 September to 1 October 1941, transferred to the 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada and sent to Hong Kong with Force C. He had 306 days of service, including 53 overseas.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Related media

Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 23 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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