Background
Beyts was born in Bhudi, Kutch State, India, and educated at Bowden House School, Seaford and Wellington College, Berkshire.
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Education
He then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before commissioning into the Indian Army on 2 February 1928.
Career
He served his first year in India with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, before joining the 3rd Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles. Beyts saw further action in the Waziristan campaign (1936-1939), before attending the Staff College, Camberley and working as a staff officer at the War Office of the India Office. Between December 1943 and April 1945, Beyts was Commanding Officer of his old unit, 3rd Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles during the Burma Campaign, and he then served as commander of the 62nd Indian Infantry Brigade until June 1945.
In May 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
From 1946 to Indian independence in 1947 he was Commander of the Infantry School, Mhow. After leaving India in 1947, Beyts established a dairy farm in British Kenya.
He applied for work with the British administration there and became District Commissioner for the Mweiga area. His district contained the Treetops Hotel, and in 1952 Beyts was responsible for informing Princess Elizabeth that George VI had died.
He left Kenya in 1962 in the wake of the Mau Mau Uprising.
Achievements
Membership
At the start of the Second World War, he trained Independent Companies in Scotland that took part in the Norwegian Campaign, and he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1941.
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December 13, 2000 (aged 92)