Richard Beamish Biddles

Private

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of John and Ethel Blanche Biddles, of Dargaville.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

"Special to ‘‘Northern Advocate” AUCKLAND, This Day. An inquest into the death of Richard Beamish Biddles, the returned soldier , who fell to his death from the top of the nine-storey Lister Building into Victoria Street on Thursday, was opened yesterday afternoon. Deceased, who was invalided home from the Middle East in December, was a single man, aged 26.

John Wallis Biddles said deceased was his brother, and had farmed with the family at Pukehuia, Northland. In a letter about a week before his death he indicated that he was going to try and get a position in the army again. He had never expressed any suicidal tendencies, and so far as witness knew he had no financial or other worries. When he left for Auckland on December 28 he showed no sign of depression or worry. While serving in Egypt he was involved in a motor accident, arid injured the hip, knee and head. The inquest was adjourned." [Northern Advocate, 7 February 1942, Page 4]

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Casualty

Service Number:

3104

Name:

Richard Beamish Biddles

Rank:

Private

Date of Birth:

25 September 1915

Place of Birth:

Gisborne, Poverty Bay, New Zealand

Next of Kin:

Mrs E B Biddles (mother), Pukehuia

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Locality on Enlistment:

Pukehuia

Place of Enlistment:

Dargaville, New Zealand

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation on Enlistment:

Farmer

Unit:

New Zealand Infantry, 18 (Auckland) Battalion

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Accidental death

Date of Death:

05 February 1942

Day of Death:

Thursday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 1st Echelon

Embarkation Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Embarkment Date:

05 January 1940

Destination:

Egypt

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Dargaville (Old Mount Wesley) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Ashes buried in family plot.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand