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BEETEN, Frederick
Personal Details
Service Number: | 3714 |
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Enlisted: | 28 August 1915, Goulburn, NSW |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Yass, New South Wales, Australia, 1897 |
Home Town: | Yass, Yass Valley, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Convent of Mercy School, Yass, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Tailor |
Died: | Meningitis, France, 16 April 1916 |
Cemetery: |
Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension Grave I.J. 16. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Yass & District WW1 Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 1 Service
28 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3714, 20th Infantry Battalion, Goulburn, NSW | |
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20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3714, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3714, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 18 and the son of Susan Beeten, of Polding St., Yass, New South Wales, and the late John Beeten.
DEATH OF YASS SOLDIER.
A wire reached Yass on Monday conveying the sad intelligence that Bugler Fred Beeten had been shot dead at the front.