BEATTIE, Sydney
| Service Number: | 4007 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Headquarters Australian Imperial Force (AIF) |
| Born: | Gawler, South Australia, 1 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Heatherton, Victoria, Australia, 29 October 1922, aged 29 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham (Pioneer) Cemetery, Victoria Plot 40*26RC*O |
| Memorials: | Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4007, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4007, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4007, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 22 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4007, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force (AIF) |
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Son of Edward BEATTY and Margaret nee KAINEY
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Dan Jones
Another forgotten soldier resting at Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery. 100 years ago on the 30th of October 1922, 4007 Private Sydney Beattie (also spelt Beaty), 23rd Battalion died of tuberculosis at Heatherton Sanitorium, Victoria.
Born on the 1 November 1892 in Gawler, South Australia, the son of Edward and Margaret Beattie (nee Carney/Karney). Initially enlisting at Broken Hill in October 1915, he was discharged as medically unfit in January 1916 (suffering from epilepsy brought on by 'nervous instability). The 23 year old electrician reenlisted again in Victoria on the 3rd of February 1916. Arriving at France in March of 1916, Beattie seems to have been quite sick - he was sent back to England in June as suffering from Bronchitis. He evidently recovered as he was sent back to France on the 5th of December. However, just 12 days later he was again put out of action. This time due to influenza. Over the opening months of 1917 Beattie was hospitalised numerous times suffering from various raspatory problems, as well as the return of his influenza in June.
Returning back to action, he was again invalided to England and hospitalised in October 1918 - having been severely wounded in the left thigh from a gun shot wound. Beattie was not sent back to France, instead serving out the rest of the war with the War Chest Club before being sent back to Australia in March 1919. He was discharged in Adelaide in June.
He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Roman Catholic section of the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery. (Plot 40*26RC*O) This is presumably because he had no family in Victoria. He was just 29 years old. He was buried on what would of been his 30th birthday.
I am currently writing an application to the OAWG to mark this grave.
Lest we forget.
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