Rank:
Sergeant
Service number:
875
Unit:
10th Infantry Battalion
Location:
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey
Eyewitness to:
Packet number:
116
SLSA record number:
SRG 76/1/116
George Darling Beames | Source: http://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+46130/286a
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Norwood footballer, No. 875
Norwood footballer, No. 875 George Darling Beames was born at Eastwood, South Australia, on 6 April 1889. He enlisted at Morphettville, South Australia, on 31 August 1914 and served with the 10th Battalion. He was wounded in action at Gallipoli on 19 May 1915 and again in France on 26 July 1916. He married Christina Urquhart at Glasgow in 1918 and returned to Australia with Christina in 1919.