He was commissioned into the General List on 7 October 1939 as a second lieutenant. Produced by Arnold Ridley. Ian (John) Hay Beith was born on 17 April 1876. He was a second-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was in France in April of 1915 and was one of the first 100,000 of Kitchener's Army.
