George Beamish
British Lions & Ireland rugby union player and Royal Air Force Air Marshal (1905-1967) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the New Zealand athlete, see Geordie Beamish.
Air Marshal Sir George Robert Beamish, KCB, CBE (29 April 1905 – 13 November 1967) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force from the Second World War to his retirement in the late 1950s. Prior to the Second World War, while Beamish was in the RAF, he was a keen rugby union player, playing for Leicester and being capped 26 times for Ireland and was selected for the 1930 British Lions tour. He was also the chairman of the RAF Rugby Union and an Air Force rugby selector.
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Birth name | George Robert Beamish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1905-04-29)29 April 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dunmanway, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 November 1967(1967-11-13) (aged 62) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Castlerock, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Coleraine Academical Institution | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir George Beamish | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1923–58 |
Rank | Air Marshal |
Commands held | Technical Training Command (1955–58) Transport Command (1954–55) Air Headquarters Iraq (1950–52) Royal Air Force College Cranwell (1949–50) No. 45 Group (1945–46) No. 44 Group (1943–45) |
Battles/wars | Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in Despatches (2) Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I (Greece) Officer of the Legion of Merit (United States) |
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