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Major-General Clifford Thomason Beckett CB, CBE, MC (1891–1972) of the Royal Artillery, had a distinguished military career including being Acting General Officer Commanding Malta in 1942.〔(Clifford Thomason Beckett at www.generals.dk )〕 ==Early life==
Clifford Beckett was the older son of Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE, DSO, VD (1862–1956) and Bessie Drummond Thomason, daughter of Major-General Charles Simeon Thomason (1833–1911) of the Bengal Royal Engineers. His younger brother became Captain Walter Napier Thomason Beckett, MVO, DSC, RN (1893 – 1941), a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II. Prior to his military career Beckett’s father William had been a senior Civil Engineer, working on behalf of the Indian government. Clifford Beckett spent a significant part of his childhood living in India, where his father was in charge of constructing the first railway bridges over the Orissa rivers on the East Coast Extension of the Bengal – Nagpur Railway, completing the connection between the cities of Calcutta and Madras. In 1901, he was awarded the Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers for a paper he presented on his completed project.〔The Bridges over the Orissa Rivers on the East Coast Extension of the Bengal – Nagpur Railway. (W.T.C. Beckett, M. Inst. C.E., Paper No. 3250, 1901)〕 The family returned to Great Britain for the boys education, and lived near Grantown-on-Spey in Scotland.
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