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Keywords: portrait douglass beattie douglassbeattie lse veteran people blackandwhite monochrome black and white Electrical Storeman 1966-1982 'Mr Beattie has had a varied and interesting working life. He served for fifteen years in the Army. During the 1939/45 War, in the Royal Artillery, he saw action in North Africa, through Sicily, and Italy to Germany and at the end of the war carried out spells of guard duty on trains running from Milan to Boulogne. In 1946 he joined the parachute regiment, serving in Hong Kong and Korea. On leaving the Army in 1952 he spent two years with the Whitechapel Bell Foundry turning the hand-bells (a part of the tuning process). He then worked at Chase Farm Hospital at Enfield as an operating theatre technician. He started at the School as porter in 1966 and transferred to the post of Electrical Storeman in 1967...A keen footballer, he played for his regiment team when in the Army. A former supporter of Spurs and Arsenal he has now moved south of the river and follows Chelsea and Fulham!' LSE Magazine, June 1983 No 65 p.17 IMAGELIBRARY/974 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... Electrical Storeman 1966-1982 'Mr Beattie has had a varied and interesting working life. He served for fifteen years in the Army. During the 1939/45 War, in the Royal Artillery, he saw action in North Africa, through Sicily, and Italy to Germany and at the end of the war carried out spells of guard duty on trains running from Milan to Boulogne. In 1946 he joined the parachute regiment, serving in Hong Kong and Korea. On leaving the Army in 1952 he spent two years with the Whitechapel Bell Foundry turning the hand-bells (a part of the tuning process). He then worked at Chase Farm Hospital at Enfield as an operating theatre technician. He started at the School as porter in 1966 and transferred to the post of Electrical Storeman in 1967...A keen footballer, he played for his regiment team when in the Army. A former supporter of Spurs and Arsenal he has now moved south of the river and follows Chelsea and Fulham!' LSE Magazine, June 1983 No 65 p.17 IMAGELIBRARY/974 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a...
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