Kenneth Stanley Beacroft

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 20 Apr 1920 - East Halton, Lincolnshire, England
    Christening: 
          Death: 13 Dec 1992
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: Bone Cancer
           AFN : 
                 

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Parents

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         Father: Roy Beacroft
         Mother: Annie Elizabeth Hesp

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Doreen Elizabeth Smith
       Children:
                1. Maureen Beacroft
                2. Wendy Beacroft
                3. Cheryl Beacroft
                4. Kenneth Beacroft
                5. Joslyn Beacroft

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Notes

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General:

Kenneth was born in Lincolnshire and emigrated to Canada with his parents in July 1920. In 1929 he was placed in a foster home at the age of ten until he was sixteen years old. During that time he lived with his foster mother who treated him as if he were her son. He worked on their farm and his foster mother assisted him in purchasing his own farm.Ken joined the Canadian Army in 1942. Hewas a despatch rider in the Signal Corps at the 3rd Divisional Headquarters. He met his wife in Richmond during 1943. He was stationed at Aldershot and Leatherhead. He married Doreen a week before he was posted to Belgium. He served in Holland and Germany. He returned to Canada in December 1945. He was reunited with his mother after his brother Ronald was killed in Hong Kong. She saw Ken listed as his next of kin and wrote to him. Ken died of bone cancer after a short illness on December 13th 1992.
(Syd Beacroft: I am indebted to Doreen Beacroft for this information)