Sergeant, Royal Australian Air Force 402717 Age: 22. (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 3 Squadron, Sidi Haneish, Egypt.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Kittyhawk; Place - Middle East; Date - 16 April 1942.
Crashed on Take Off from Landing Ground 12, Sidi Haneish North when the Engine Failed and Control was Lost, Aircraft was Either Ak712 Or Ak649.
He is honoured with a Last Post Video Tribute on the AWM website. The video can be viewed by accessing his Roll of Honour record.
Places included in his tour of duty.
Africa: Egypt
Africa: Egypt, Marsa Matruh, El Alamein, El Alamein War Cemetery
Africa: North Africa
Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Sidi Haneish
Africa: Rhodesia
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He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Mittagong NSW, also his name is located at panel 98 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
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Son of William and Catherine Jemima Sawle Beard, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Father William Beard (1892-1970)
Mother Catherine J S Gourley (Born 1894)
Posting on Death: 3 Squadron, Sidi Haneish, Egypt.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Kittyhawk; Place - Middle East; Date - 16 April 1942.
Crashed on Take Off from Landing Ground 12, Sidi Haneish North when the Engine Failed and Control was Lost, Aircraft was Either Ak712 Or Ak649.
He is honoured with a Last Post Video Tribute on the AWM website. The video can be viewed by accessing his Roll of Honour record.
Places included in his tour of duty.
Africa: Egypt
Africa: Egypt, Marsa Matruh, El Alamein, El Alamein War Cemetery
Africa: North Africa
Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Sidi Haneish
Africa: Rhodesia
~~~
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Mittagong NSW, also his name is located at panel 98 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
~~~
Son of William and Catherine Jemima Sawle Beard, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Father William Beard (1892-1970)
Mother Catherine J S Gourley (Born 1894)
Sergeant, Royal Australian Air Force 402717 Age: 22. (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 3 Squadron, Sidi Haneish, Egypt.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Kittyhawk; Place - Middle East; Date - 16 April 1942.
Crashed on Take Off from Landing Ground 12, Sidi Haneish North when the Engine Failed and Control was Lost, Aircraft was Either Ak712 Or Ak649.
He is honoured with a Last Post Video Tribute on the AWM website. The video can be viewed by accessing his Roll of Honour record.
Places included in his tour of duty.
Africa: Egypt
Africa: Egypt, Marsa Matruh, El Alamein, El Alamein War Cemetery
Africa: North Africa
Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Sidi Haneish
Africa: Rhodesia
~~~
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Mittagong NSW, also his name is located at panel 98 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
~~~
Son of William and Catherine Jemima Sawle Beard, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Father William Beard (1892-1970)
Mother Catherine J S Gourley (Born 1894)
Posting on Death: 3 Squadron, Sidi Haneish, Egypt.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Kittyhawk; Place - Middle East; Date - 16 April 1942.
Crashed on Take Off from Landing Ground 12, Sidi Haneish North when the Engine Failed and Control was Lost, Aircraft was Either Ak712 Or Ak649.
He is honoured with a Last Post Video Tribute on the AWM website. The video can be viewed by accessing his Roll of Honour record.
Places included in his tour of duty.
Africa: Egypt
Africa: Egypt, Marsa Matruh, El Alamein, El Alamein War Cemetery
Africa: North Africa
Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Sidi Haneish
Africa: Rhodesia
~~~
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Mittagong NSW, also his name is located at panel 98 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
~~~
Son of William and Catherine Jemima Sawle Beard, of Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Father William Beard (1892-1970)
Mother Catherine J S Gourley (Born 1894)
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