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Détails victime
Informations personnelles
- 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";
Données militaires
- 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
Décès
- 26 September 1917; wounded in action; gunshot wounds abdomen; Polygon Wood
- Died of wounds in n°17 CCS
- 26 September 1917
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- XXIII - C - 12
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