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  • BEAVER
  • WN
  • WILFRED NORMAN
  • Melbourne
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Son of Albert and Evelyn Beaver, of London County and Westminster Bank, Bayswater, London, England
  • Scotch College Melbourne; Melbourne university (law student)
  • Resident Magistrate in British New Guinea
  • Did much exploration in British New Guinea; his book 'Unexplored New Guinea' was published after his death, about "the author's experiences amongst the head-hunting savages and cannibals of the unexplored interior of New Guinea";

Military service

  • Enlisted 1 May 1916
  • Lieutenant
  • British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 60th Bn. Australian Infantry
  • 15th Brigade
  • 5th Australian Division
  • A.I.F.
  • Was commissioned Officer with the armed constabulary of Papua; applied for a commission in the 60th Bn. on 27 December 1915; 2nd Lieutenant on 1 March 1916; emarbakation 1 August 1916, Melbourne; to France November 1916; promoted Lieutenant 1 March 1917; suffered from malaria; rejoined his Bn. in France in June 1917

Death

  • 26 September 1917; wounded in action; gunshot wounds abdomen; Polygon Wood
  • Died of wounds in n°17 CCS
  • 26 September 1917
  • 35
  • XXIII - C - 12

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