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Robert Matthew Beatham

Private

Service No. 2742

Age 24

Died on 11 August 1918

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

HEATH CEMETERY, HARBONNIERES

Somme, France

Son of Elizabeth Beatham, of Glassonby, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England, and the late John Beatham. His brothers I A Beatham, John Wilfred Beatham and Frederick William Beatham also fell.

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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Lest We Forget

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2742 PTE RM Beatham, VC

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For most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice during the attack north of Rosieres, east of Amiens, on 9th Aug., 1918. When the advance was...

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