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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth New York
• Land USA
• Family Only son of David and Isabel Beattie of Troy, New York
• Education Troy High School
• Profession Employee in the Manufacturers' Bank
• Extra info Originally his grave number was 32 C 14;

Military service

• Service number 1202774
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 105th Regt. American Infantry
• Other data related to military career Joined the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the New York Army National Guard; went to Mexican border in 1916 and stayed in this Regiment; to Europe in May 1918; on 14 July, his regiment became the first American regiment to take over a sector of the trench lines in Belgium, occupying a section of the Dikkebus Line near Poperinge; Sgt. Beattie was a forward artillery observer

Death

• Wounded 31 August, Dikkebusch Line, observation post
• Type of wounds Killed in action by artillery shrapnel; it struck him on the head, at the left temple.
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXXII - A - 15

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