WAR RECORDER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 8

WAR RECORDER

NEW CORRESPONDENT LIEUT. GRAHAM E. BEAMISH (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The appointment of SecondLieutenant G. E. Beamish, 27th Machine-gun Battalion, as a war correspondent with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. is announced in the Gazette. Second-Lieutenant W. S. Jordan New Zealand Divisional Cavalry, has relinguished his appointment as warcorrespondent. lieutenant Beanus?i began his journalistic career in the Sorith Island and was for a time in his early twenties editor of the Temuka l eader. He was for many < >n t,le reporting staff of the Auckland Star and was well known as a Rugby All marL- - W fo"oV° ' S ° uth Aflica with the thi. xrf, V i 5 t? s the re P r esentative of the Jsew Zealand Press Association.

He specialised in the reporting of crime and took a prominent part not only in repoi ting (he trial, but also in covering the prolonged police investigations which preceded the arrest of the Ituawaro murderer, Thomas William Bailey. r> sen ' or war correspondent, Mr. . • Mdler. who is now in base hospital in Cairo with acute appendicitis, he cove'.®<J ':' le trials of Eric Mareo. charged with the murder of his wife. Three years ago Lieutenant Beamish was transferred on promotion to the company's evenine paper in Christchurch. the Star-Sun. enhs, ed in the First Echelon as a prn ate, specialised in machine gunnerv and was selected for a commission. He left early this year for the Middle East >v? e draft of reinforcements after the departure of the Third Echelon. He is a son of Major F. E. Beamish, of *™ e ,h a( P sei "Ved with distinction in the War of l 91 C 4-18 3r ' 3S weU 35 m lhe Great