Beckett, Robert Andrew
Marines Private 1st class

Robert Andrew Beckett, age 32, from Calhoun County Bruce, Mississippi .

Parents: C. C. Beckett

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, March 1, 1942
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston when the ship was attacked traveling from Batavia to Java.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, USSHouston.org, Commercial Appeal (1942)