BEADON, Eric Norman
| Service Number: | N469748 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 May 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Woonona, New South Wales, Australia, 5 December 1924 |
| Home Town: | Woonona, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mill Labourer |
| Died: | Caragabal, New South Wales, Australia, 30 October 1984, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 12 May 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N469748 | |
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| 24 Nov 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N469748 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eric was the second of three children of Jeremiah (Jerry) Beadon (b1894 in Young, NSW) and Mary Amelia Salisbury (b1906 in Woonona, NSW). Jerry - a Farmer at Marsden, NSW - and Mary married in 1923 in Bulli, NSW. Jerry was a Farmer at Marsden until 1930, when the family moved to Woonona and then to Caragabal in NSW where Jerry was a Council Worker.
Eric was a Mill Labourer in Caragabal in February 1943 when he enlisted in the ACMF. He was a Gunner (Service No:N469748) attached to 33 Battalion VDC when he was Discharged in November that year.
In 1948 Eric - a Rural Worker - married Edna Joan Dixon (b1930 in NSW) in Grenfell, NSW. Eric and Joan lived in Caragabul, Woonona and Calare, NSW where Eric was a Driver and Farm Manager and in the mid 1960s he was a Farmer at Dring, Pullabooka in Calare NSW. Eric died in 1985 and Joan in 2019.