Profile

McBEATH, Robert Wilkin
(Service number 11906)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	16/03/1992	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Marton
Occupation	Stock buyer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary McBEATH (mother), Grey Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	12th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From		Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

farmer

Death

Date	*July 1951	Age	69 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Aramoho Cemetery, Wanganui
Memorial Reference	Block H, Row 7, Plot 437
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Wilkin McBeath was the son of John and Mary (née Horrell) McBeath. He was educated at West Christchurch and Prebbleton schoold before the family moved to Totara Valley in 1890 and there Robert attended the local school. His brother John was killed in action in 1916.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 January 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of internal Affairs) [09 January 2019]; School Admission records (Canterbury & South Canterbury branches NZSG) [09 January 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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