Edward Miles BEAUMONT

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BEAUMONT, Edward Miles

Service Number:	408791
Enlisted:	23 May 1941
Last Rank:	Pilot Officer
Last Unit:	General Reconnaissance School
Born:	Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia, 25 April 1920
Home Town:	Ivanhoe, Banyule, Victoria
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Flying Accident, Werribee, Victoria, Australia, 28 January 1942, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Burwood General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia C of E Plot Section 5 Grave 78
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Camperdown War Memorial, Dromana St. Mark's Anglican Church Memorial Window

World War 2 Service

23 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 408791, General Reconnaissance School Bairnsdale
28 Jan 1942:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 408791, General Reconnaissance School, Laverton, Victoria

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Gipsy Moth A7-74 from the General Reconnaissance School at Laverton crashed 2 miles SW of Point Cook aerodrome in sea mouth of the Werribee River killing Pilot Officer Melville Arthur Chaloner Olive 405600 (Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens, Brisbane) and Pilot Officer Edward Miles Beaumont 408791 (Burwood General Cemetery, Victoria)

Biography contributed

Edward Miles BEAUMONT was born in Ivanhoe, Victoria on 25th April, 1920

His parents were Harold BEAUMONT & Mary Elizabeth Pearl WORTHINGTON

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