William Francis Beattie

MC (23 November 1886 – 3 October 1918) was a Scottish sculptor killed in the closing weeks of the First World War.

[1] He was born in Hawick on 23 November 1886, the son of Annie Kate McMann and Thomas Beattie (1861–1933), a local sculptor, whose most notable work includes the interior of the Usher Hall and the war memorial at Carnoustie.

He transferred as a Lieutenant to the Royal Field Artillery and won the Military Cross from bravery in November 1917 for the rescue of two men from the battlefield during the Second Battle of Passchendaele.

He fought at the Battle of Loos, Ypres and the Somme and had at least suffered due to a one gas attack (in April 1918).

He died of wounds at a field hospital near Joncourt on 3 October 1918, a few weeks before the end of the war, during the Hundred Days Offensive.