George Hamilton Beattie
George Hamilton Beattie (1890-1921)
1890 Born in India, son of Malcolm Hamilton Beattie and his wife Maria Isabel[1]
1905 Educated at Eastbourne College[2]
1908 Studied Civil Engineering at Glasgow University on a sandwich course with practical experience at Anderston Foundry Co Ltd, on the Glasgow and South Western Railway and the Great Northern Railway
1912 Completed academic study
1914 Completed industrial training; joined the East Africa Directorate
1915 Joined the Royal Engineers
1917 Promoted to Captain, RE, working on light railway maintenance, construction of bridges, etc
1916 Married Jane Stuart Kennedy[3]
1919 Living in Glasgow; proposed to join Inst Civil Engineers[4]
Assistant engineer on the Baghdad Railway.
1921 Died in Mesopotamia. [5]