Beaumont Ray GOODING

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GOODING, Beaumont Ray

Service Number:	415730
Enlisted:	31 January 1942
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School Benalla
Born:	Wagin, Western Australia, Australia, 23 October 1918
Home Town:	Moulyinning, Dumbleyung Shire, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental (Ground Accident), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 December 1942, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria 1.S.D.8, Springvale War Cemetery, Springvale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Dumbleyung War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 415730
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School Benalla, Number 11 Elementary Flying Training School
31 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 415730

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

LAC Gooding of Number 11 Elementary Flying Training School suffered severe injuries when he dived into a shallow pool at Benalla, Victoria on Xmas day 1942 - he died at Number 6 RAAF Hospital in Heidelberg two days later (cause of death information obtained from member’s NAA casualty file)

Son of Beaumont Harnson Gooding and Elizabeth Sarah Gooding of Moulyinning, Western Australia

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