William Francis Beaumont

Birth: Jun 1898 - Norwich, Norfolk, England Christening: Death: 1952 - Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Burial:

Events

• He was baptised on 29 Sep 1898 in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

• He resided at 12 Barrow Path in 1901 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He resided at 12 Chapel Path in 1911 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He worked as a farm hand employed by Mr H. Rawle at Southcote Farm on 9 Nov 1915 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He resided at 177 Heath Road on 9 Nov 1915 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• William served in the military on 10 Nov 1915 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England: joined the 2nd Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment.

• He served in the military in 1916: was assigned to the 102nd. Labour Company.

• William served in the military on 26 Dec 1916: was confined to barracks for ten days after being 'absent from tattoo.

• He served in the military on 1 Feb 1917: was confined to barracks for 5 days for having a dirty rifle on parad.

• William served in the military on 26 Feb 1917: was confined to barracks for 3 days for eating on parade.

• He served in the military on 23 Mar 1917: was confined to barracks for 3 days for being dirty on parade.

• William served in the military on 25 Apr 1917: was posted to France.

• He served in the military on 28 Oct 1917 in Calais, France: was deprived of one day's pay for having a dirty rifle on company offi.

• William served in the military in 1919: was a member of the 311 Labour (PoW) Company.

• He served in the military on 24 Jul 1919: returned from France.

• William served in the military on 26 Aug 1919: was discharged from the army.

• He resided at 177 Heath Road on 27 Aug 1919 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He received medical attention for application for an army pension for blindness in his left eye rejecte on 20 Nov 1919.

• Departure: 1921, in England.

• Arrival: 22 May 1921, in Quebec, Canada.

• He emigrated aboard the SS Melita to his uncle Robert's home in Canada on 22 May 1921.

• He received medical attention for blind in the left eye on 22 May 1921 in Quebec, Canada (immigration note).

• He worked as a farm hand on 22 May 1921.

• He was a Salvation Army member on 22 May 1921.

• He resided at Allandale 22 RR on 22 May 1921 in Ontario, Canada.

• He immigrated from Montreal, Canada back to England on the SS Montclare on 1 Jul 1932.

• He worked as a farm hand on 1 Jul 1932.

• He resided at 177 Heath Road on 1 Jul 1932 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He emigrated aboard the SS Moreton Bay to Melbourne, Australia on 1 Mar 1933 from Southampton, Hampshire, England.

• He worked as a farm hand on 1 Mar 1933.

• He resided at 72 Vandyke Road on 1 Mar 1933 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England.

• He immigrated through Freemantle, Western Australia en route to Melbourne, Victoria on 31 Mar 1933.

• Sausage Eating: won a sausage-eating contest (25 sausages consumed), on 9 Sep 1935, in Traralgon, New South Wales, Australia.

• Sausage Eating: won another sausage-eating competition (27 sausages consumed), on 13 Jan 1939, in Glengarry West, Victoria, Australia.

• He served in the military on 24 Apr 1941 in Seymour, Victoria, Australia: was a member of the Garrison at the Mobilisation Sidings.

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