William Alexander Beach

BDM NSW

Birth 18927/1881 Wollongong; William Alexander, to William and Sarah.

Marriage 10122/1923 Hurstville; Beach, William Alexander to Findlay, Maud L.

Death 14193/1937 Canterbury; Beach, William Alexander, son of William and Sarah.

NAA/AIF Project: William Alexander Beach: S/N 1034: Born Brownsville: C of E: Labourer: NOK Mrs W Beach: Enisted 21 September 1914: Private: 4th Btn, A Company: Embarked on HMAT A14 Euripides 20 October 1914: Wounded in action France July 1916, shell wound left ankle: Returned from England 10 December 1917 per HMAT A72 Beltana. Discharged 11 January 1918.

(William Alexander Beach did not invent the periscope rifle, as some newspaper articles have implied. That was William Beech from Condobolin NSW).

Death SMH Saturday 10 July 1937:

BEACH.-July 8, 1937, at Canterbury Hospital, William Alexander Beach, late of 32 Arthur-street, Punchbowl, and 4th Battalion A.I.F., dearly loved husband of Maud, and father of John, aged 54 years.

Buried Woronora Cemetery:

William A Beach, died 08/07/1937, interred Anglican Mon Section AG - 0442, with his wife Maud Lydia Beach, and the ashes of their son John Findlay Beach.