Roy BECKINGHAM

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Service Number:	4360
Enlisted:	23 October 1915, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, 26 April 1897
Home Town:	Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Leichhardt War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

23 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sydney, New South Wales
9 Apr 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, 4360, 17th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
9 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, 4360, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney
20 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4360, 17th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4360 awm_unit: 17th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-09-20

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Roy Emanuel BECKINGHAM was born on 26th April, 1897 in Narrabri, New South Wales

His parents were George Shadrick BECKINGHAM & Matilda Grace SELF who married in Narrabri in 1891

His father George died on 22nd October, 1902 of Typhoid Fever & his mother Matilda remarried in Sydney in 1914 to Buckley WESTON

Memorial details: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium