Not sure where Mount Gambiia is but there is a Mount Gambier in South Australia. You give no indication of where and when Walter might have been Born Married Died etc so is this your man??
Name: Walter Michael Beaven Death Date: 21 Jul 1952 Death Place: South Australia Registration Year: 1951-1955 Registration Place: South Australia Page Number: 3969 Volume Number: 785
Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA) Tuesday 22 July 1952 DEATH BEAVEN...On July 21, at Hospital, Mount Gambier, Walter Michael, of Crouch Street, Mount Gambier dearly beloved husband of Ellen Isabel Mary Beaven, and loved father of Keith, Valda, John, and Alice. Aged 63 years. The friends, of the late Mr.Walter Michael Beaven, are respectfully informed; that his funeral will leave his late residence, Crouch Street, Mt. Gambier, on Wednesday, at 2 p.m., for the Mount Gambier Cemetery. ERN JAMES, Phone 281. Funeral-Director
Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA) Thursday 24 July 1952 The R.S.L. flag was flown at half mast yesterday, as a tribute to the late Mr. Walter Michael Beaven, a former member of the R.A.M.C., who died at his residence, Crouch Street, on Monday. Members of the R.S.L. attended the funeral yesterday, and the President (Mr. J. R. Hopgood) read the R.S.L. burial service at the graveside.
You have the right man, he was my grandfather. My father was his first born, Walter Claude Leslie, born in England in 1914, he died just before Christmas 1962 aged 49. Jean Milspaugh who married a US serviceman, and I believe lived in Las Vagas, was the only person that I knew as a child, who had any information about my grandfather, whom I never met or knew anything about him. My elder sister did some research a long time ago and somehow got in touch with Alice. Many years ago I visited Alice in Mt Gambia, and she produced many photos that I had never seen, and knew more about my ancestry than I did. I am now 72 and thought it might be nice to meet some of my close relatives, i.e. my father's half brothers and sisters, and their children. I have a younger brother who only has a daughter, and a son who also only has a daughter, so from our prospective the family name dies with my son. Incidentally, I live in Adelaide, Stepney for 30 years, now in Goodwood.
Not sure where Mount Gambiia is but there is a Mount Gambier in South Australia. You give no indication of where and when Walter might have been Born Married Died etc so is this your man??
Name: Walter Michael Beaven
Death Date: 21 Jul 1952
Death Place: South Australia
Registration Year: 1951-1955
Registration Place: South Australia
Page Number: 3969
Volume Number: 785
Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA) Tuesday 22 July 1952
DEATH
BEAVEN...On July 21, at Hospital, Mount Gambier,
Walter Michael, of Crouch Street, Mount Gambier
dearly beloved husband of Ellen Isabel Mary Beaven,
and loved father of Keith, Valda, John, and Alice.
Aged 63 years.
The friends, of the late Mr.Walter Michael Beaven, are
respectfully informed; that his funeral will leave his late
residence, Crouch Street, Mt. Gambier, on Wednesday, at 2 p.m.,
for the Mount Gambier Cemetery.
ERN JAMES,
Phone 281. Funeral-Director
Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA) Thursday 24 July 1952
The R.S.L. flag was flown at half mast yesterday, as a
tribute to the late Mr. Walter Michael Beaven, a former
member of the R.A.M.C., who died at his residence, Crouch
Street, on Monday. Members of the R.S.L. attended the
funeral yesterday, and the President (Mr. J. R. Hopgood)
read the R.S.L. burial service at the graveside.
Mount Gambier Lake Terrace Cemetery
You have the right man, he was my grandfather. My father was his first born, Walter Claude Leslie, born in England in 1914, he died just before Christmas 1962 aged 49. Jean Milspaugh who married a US serviceman, and I believe lived in Las Vagas, was the only person that I knew as a child, who had any information about my grandfather, whom I never met or knew anything about him. My elder sister did some research a long time ago and somehow got in touch with Alice.
Many years ago I visited Alice in Mt Gambia, and she produced many photos that I had never seen, and knew more about my ancestry than I did.
I am now 72 and thought it might be nice to meet some of my close relatives, i.e. my father's half brothers and sisters, and their children.
I have a younger brother who only has a daughter, and a son who also only has a daughter, so from our prospective the family name dies with my son.
Incidentally, I live in Adelaide, Stepney for 30 years, now in Goodwood.