Military History

Beasley was sent with his Artillery Battery to Melbourne attached to 3rd Division Field Artillery as Gunner. Transferred to 118 Howitzer Battery as A/Cpl at Maribyrnong Vic.
Embarked Melbourne per ‘Aeneas’ A60 for Plymouth UK 3.10.1916.
Roll Rank Sergeant.
Roll Unit 118th Howitzer Battery.
Beasley disembarked in England with 3rd Australian Division Artillery for training. He embarked with his Unit for France 8.2.1917. After 9 months on fighting on the Somme, he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 24.11.1917 and to Lieutenant in 1.3.1918. The 38th Battalion fought at Messiness, Broodseinde and Passchendaele. Beasley was promoted to Adjunct 20.10.1918. He was made an Orderly with the 14th Field Artillery Brigade 27.2.1919, then demobilised and listed for return to Australia.
Embarked Liverpool for return to Australia per ‘Durham’ 22.5.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Australia 8.7.1919.
Discharged 28.8.1919.
Final Rank Lieutenant, 38th Battery, 3rd Division Field Artillery.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Father- Thomas Beasley, Staff Surveyor, Department of Lands and Titles died 1902 (Western Mail 9.8.1902)
Brother Robert Guildford Beasley KIA in WW1. Beasley's mother took in soldier boarders at her home at 20 East St.  J. Napier was one of those boarders.
Photo Imperial War Museum,' Bonds of Sacrifice First World War Portrait Collection' © IWM (HU 109189)
           HMAT 'Aeneus'. Photo source State Library NSW image  a636033r
           4.5 inch  Howitzer Ammunition wagons of  a Howitzer Battery. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E02194
           View from Broodseinde Ridge, Passchendaele 1917. Photographer unknown, image courtesy AWM E00961
           
          

Information Source
AWM  E021944. 5 inch  Howitzer Ammunition wagons of  a Howitzer Battery. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM 00961. View from Broodsinde Ridge, Passchendaele 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced form the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial- Harold Gascoyne Beasley
Guildford War Memorial
Imperial War Museum, 'Bonds of Sacrifice- First World War Portrait Collection'.© IWM (HU 109189)
NAA: B2455, Beasley H G 29456
SLNSW a636033r. HMAT 'Aeneus'. Photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the State Library of New South Wales State Library NSW i
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Western Mail

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