Delta force game founder
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BECKWITH, JOHN CHARLES, British army officer and missionary; b. 2 Oct. 1789 at Halifax, N.S., the son of John Beckwith and Mary (Polly) Halliburton, sister of Brenton Halliburton*; d. 19 July 1862 at his home, La Torre, near Turin (Italy).
John Charles Beckwith’s father had been an officer in the British army but he resigned his commission and settled in Nova Scotia where he served as adjutant-general and lieutenant-colonel in the provincial militia. On 2 June 1803 in England John Charles entered the British army as an ensign in the 50th or West Kent Regiment of Foot; on 29 Aug. 1804 he became a lieutenant in the 95th or Rifle Regiment of which his uncle, Sir Thomas Beckwith, was lieutenant-colonel. He rose to 1st lieutenant (13 June 1805) and captain (28 July 1808), and served in Hanover (1805–6), Denmark (1807), Sweden (1808), and in Portugal (1808–9) where he participated in Sir John Moore’s retreat to Corunna, Spain. The regiment was in Walcheren (Netherlands) in 1809, but returned, in the winter of 1810, to Portugal wh
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John Charles Beckwith (British Army officer)
British army officer
John Charles Beckwith | |
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| Born | 1789 Nova Scotia |
| Died | 19 July 1862 Torre Pellice, Waldensian Valleys |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Army officer, Philanthropist |
John Charles Beckwith (1789–1862) was a British army officer who was born in Nova Scotia. He is best remembered for being injured in the Battle of Waterloo and for his charity work and philanthropy among the Waldensians of northern Italy.[1][2]
Career
John Charles Beckwith, known as Charles Beckwith, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was the eldest of ten children. He was the grandson of Major-General John Beckwith and nephew of the generals, Sir George Beckwith and Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith. He attended the Halifax Grammar School with Captain Herbert Clifford.[3]
He left Halifax to join the British army at age 14. Charles Beckwith joined the 50th Regiment of Foot in 1803, exchanging in 1804 into the 95th Rifles, with which regiment he served in the Peninsular campaigns of 1808–1
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Charles Alvin Beckwith
U.S. Army Special Forces officer (1929–1994)
Charlie Alvin Beckwith (22 January 1929 – 13 June 1994) was a career United States Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare unit of the United States Army, based on his experience serving with the British Special Air Service. He served in the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement.
Early life and education
Beckwith was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 22 January 1929, to Baptist parents Elza Dozier Beckwith (1894–1940) and Clara Eugenia Beckwith (née Rey; 1895–1973). He was an all-state football player for his high school team. He later enrolled in the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Delta chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and ROTC.
Beckwith lettered in football for the Bulldogs, and was approached by the Green Bay Packers for the 1950–51 NFL draft, but turned it down in favor of a military career. He was commissioned
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