Identity
Person No.
1385
Service No.
125829V
Last Name
First Name
John Frederick
Initials
J F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, instantly while supervising the dressing of wounded men at a casualty clearing station when the station received a direct hit from a German heavy caliber artillery shell
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
Notes
Son of Frederick James Beaton, late of the Kimberley Regiment WW1, and Agnes Margaret Mary Rita Beaton, of Rayman Lodge, Sherborne Road, Parktown, Johannesburg. Educated at Christian Brothers College, Kimberley. He attested in June 1940 and after a period of officer training was sent to North Africa, attached to the SATC. He returned to SA on leave in 1943 and was then sent to Italy. Born in Kimberley, he was an accountant. He was unmarried and had a sister.
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