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Military service
Service number:
R/75332
Age:
27
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
#22 Operational Training Unit
Birth:
November 24, 1914
Donalda, Alberta
Enlistment:
November 22, 1940
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
July 6, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Joint grave 5640. Plot A. (C. of E.)
Additional information
Son of Robert Henry Beatty and Ina Ellen (née Brown) Beatty, of Belbeck, Saskatchewan. He stated he was a night clerk at a hotel and he enjoyed photography, skating, playing hockey, swimming and tennis. He also played the trumpet. He was a member of the Provincial Baseball Championship Team of 1936. He also served in the Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers of the Active Militia from 2 November 1934 to 18 May 1940 as a Corporal Signaller.
Additional citations
Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
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Cemetery
F/S Beatty, age 28, was a Wireless/Air Gunner training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when It flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a Mountain at Cerric, Breconshire. He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were F.S. E. E. Mittell F.S. J. B. Kemp Sgt. J. P. Hayes Sgt. K. Yuill From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc. -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 57 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEREFORD CEMETERY Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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