Mackay Angus McBeath Colour Sergeant 3060962
Personnel Entry
Name Mackay Angus McBeath
Army number 3060962
Rank Colour Sergeant
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards. Held the degree of MA Hons.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 28 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Scots, no enlistment date yet ascertained. Transferred to the Black Watch 25/9/1940, BW358/4/94, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served Iceland? Served Normandy. Wounded. DIED of WOUNDS NW Europe 1/7/44, Serial No. 354.
Company/Battery Company not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Company HQ.
Task or role Company Quarter Master Sergeant.
Joined Brigade Not yet confirmed.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Yes – reported wounded North West Europe 1/7/1944, probably at Rauray.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action DIED of WOUNDS 01-Jul-44. Initially interred at the Jerusalem Cemetery - Map 7F/1 1/50,000 Reference 818.724. Re-buried 20/2/1945 in
Grave IV.A.8. Tilly-Sur-Seulles War Cemetery. No headstone inscription.
Home address Son of Donald McBeath and Mary Mackay, Husband of Violet Mackay, Edinburgh.
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