| - Notes: Beatty, Henry John (known as Harry) (442) Private, C Squadron. Born Queanbeyan, 1879. Farmed at Urila near Queanbeyan. Parents were William Alexander Beatty (d. 1889) and Catherine Trihey, Queanbeyan, who had 6 sons and 4 daughters (1860-84). Religion: Church of England. Left Sydney per s.s Southern Cross, 17/1/1900 and disembarked Capetown, 19/2/1900. Missed RTA by Tongariro for he was in hospital. Later enlisted with A Squadron, 3NSWMR with same regimental number [442]. Promoted Sergeant 6/5/1901; SQMS 21/11/1901. With Rimington’s Column in the Eastern Transvaal and Eastern OFS. Transferred to 3NSWIB. Left Capetown 4/5/1902 and reached Sydney, 3/6/1902. Awarded QSA and 5 clasps: Drie.Jhb/DH/Witt/CC, and KSA and two clasps. WW1: Enlisted 21/2/1916 in British Columbia as a Private with 102 Bn. Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Was Hit by enemy machine gun fire and had his leg fractured at Poperinghe, Belgium on 3/9/1916. Later died of his wounds. Buried Lijssenthoek military cemetery, Belgium. Not to be confused with another Henry John Beatty also born in Queanbeyan, in 1872 and whose parents were John Beatty and Elizabeth Feagan (d.1878) who had 7 sons and 3 daughters (1854-75), and who joined the 3NSWIB as SQMS [6001]. This HJB died St.Peter’s, NSW, 1939. |