John Beckett

Sergeant John Archibald Beckett GC (14 March 1906 – 12 April 1947) was a recipient of the George Cross and a Royal Air Force airman.

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Sergeant John Archibald Beckett GC (14 March 1906 – 12 April 1947) was a recipient of the George Cross and a Royal Air Force airman. Earlier years John Beckett was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, the son of Samuel Nicholl Beckett and Elizabeth Swanton Beckett. He was educated at St. Enoch's Public Elementary School, Belfast. Beckett worked as a fitter for the Coombe Barbour textiles company and at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. In the RAF Beckett joined in the Royal Air Force in or around January 1935. In 1940 he was evacuated from France and he then served in Canada for two years. In 1944 his duties took him to Egypt and then in 1946, to Palestine. The deed

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