BEATON, Lance Roy
| Service Number: | 3019 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1915, Adelaide South Australia Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
| Born: | Glenroy South Australia Australia, 28 January 1898 |
| Home Town: | Naracoorte, Naracoorte and Lucindale, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lucindale War Memorial, Naracoorte and District Town Hall Honour Board WW1, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide South Australia Australia | |
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| 12 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, HMAT Medic (A7) | |
| 3 May 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3019, 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Bullecourt (Second) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3019, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3019 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3019, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Son of John BEATON and Christiana nee JOHNSTONE
Service number 3019. Private Lance Roy Beaton was born at Glenroy, South Australia. He enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia, on 4th August 1916 and was initially assigned with the 7th Reinforcements of the 27th Battalion.
He embarked at Adelaide on HMAT Medic (A7) on the 12th of January 1916. Once in Egypt he was transferred to the 32nd Battalion on the 9th of April 1916. On the 29th of April he was admitted to the 15th Australian Field Ambulance, sick, before recovering and re-joining his unit on the 6th of May.
He was transferred again to the 29th Battalion on the 20th of May, 1916. He embarked at Alexandria on HT Tunisian on the 16th of June, 1916. He arrived in Marseilles on the 23rd of May.
Whilst in the field in France on the 11th of January, 1917 he transferred to the 8th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery. He was recorded as injured on the first day in the Second Battle of Bullecourt and was then originally listed as Missing in Action. Several days later was presumed Killed in Action. Private Lance Roy Beaton has known grave and his name is listed on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
Steve Larkins March 2013
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