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Pte. Walter John Beattie
British Army 15th Battalion Royal Scots
from:Jarrow
(d.26th April 1917)
Walter John Beattie served with the 15th Battalion Royal Scots he was aged 33 when he died on 26th April 1917.
Born in Bulgill, Cumberland, he was the son of Janet Milligan (formerly Beattie) and the late Walter Beattie and husband of Christina Wilson Beattie (nee Aitern) of 25 Primrose Hill, Monkton, Jarrow.
On the 1911 census is recorded as Walter John Beattie age 27 Coal miner Hewer, living with wife Christina and child at 74 Laurel Street, Wallsend. Walter enlisted in Bowhill, Selkirk and is remembered on the Arras Memorial.