On 20 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai in France, Lance-Corporal Robert McBeath volunteered to deal with a nest of machine-gunners that checked the advance of his unit and which had caused heavy casualties.
11 Facts About Robert McBeath
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Robert McBeath moved off alone, armed with a Lewis gun and a revolver.
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Robert McBeath rushed in after them, shot the first man who opposed him and then drove the remainder of the garrison out of the dug-out.
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Robert McBeath's award was published in the London Gazette on 11 January 1918, which reads:.
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Robert McBeath volunteered for the duty, and immediately moved off alone with a Lewis gun and his revolver.
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Robert McBeath located one of the machine-guns in action, and worked his way towards it, shooting the gunner with his revolver at 20 yards range.
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Robert McBeath was Initiated into Freemasonry in Lodge St Mary's Caledonian Operative, No 339, on 12 July 1919.
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Robert McBeath did not take all his Masonic degrees in Scotland.
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On October 9,1922, while walking the beat on Granville and Davie Streets with his partner, Detective R Quirk, McBeath stopped and arrested a man named Fred Deal for impaired driving.
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McBeath VC in honour of Robert McBeath, as is a housing development, McBeath Court, in his home town of Kinlochbervie.
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Robert McBeath is buried in the Masonic Section, Plot 193, Lot 6, of Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.