OBITUARY
VETERAN OF THREE WARS
Captain J. Beaumont, who died in Dunedin recently, had been in the army for 44 years. He was widely known through his duties as instructor to territorials and school cadets at the Drill Hall and as area quartermaster.
Captain Beaumont, who was born in Yorkshire, joined the British Army as a private in 1900. He fought in the Boer War with the King’s Royal Rifles, receiving the Queen’s Medal and two clasps for his services. After five years on the North-west Frontier of India he came to this country and joined the New Zealand Permanent Force in 1914. At Gallipoli, as company sergeant-major with the Fourth Otago Regiment, Captain Beaumont was wounded and invalided back here in 1916. He spent most of his time at the Kensington Drill Hall until 1939, when he was again commissioned, and retired from the regular forces in 1944. He is survived by his wife and four sons. -Otago Daily Times, 4/11/1949.
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