David C. Beattie

Company D 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 06/29/1944

David Charles Beattie was born in Nicollet, Nicollet County, Minnesota on December 12, 1916.

He listed his home of residence as Saint Peter, Minnesota.
His religion was listed as Catholic.

His Army serial number indicates he was drafted into the Army.

Private First Class Beattie was killed in action on June 29, 1944,
during the 22nd Infantry's fighting to take the Maupertus airfield, on the
Cherbourg penninsula in France.

David C. Beattie was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Blosville Cemetery at Carentan, France in Block D Row 8 Grave 145 and was moved to the permanent
cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, in the 1947-1949 time frame, when the temporary cemeteries were shut down.

Burial:
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Colleville-sur-Mer
Departement du Calvados
Basse-Normandie, France
Plot: Plot C Row 17 Grave 30

Grave marker for

David C. Beattie

Photo by

John Tomawski

and

Andreia Lino

There is a memorial plaque for David C. Beattie in the Woodlawn Cemetery
at Saint Peter, Le Sueur County, Minnesota.

Memorial plaque for David C. Beattie

Photo by LCM from the Find A Grave website

PFC Norman J. Beattie, the brother of David C. Beattie, was killed in action in Germany
while serving with the 121st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron on April 12, 1945.
Norman is buried in Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial,
Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands.

Photo by Brian Ziegler from Ancestry.com

Top photo by Gerald Schmidt from the Find A Grave website created by: CWGC/ABMC

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