Francis Walter Roy Beacham (SN 5626) was a 22 year old boilermaker from Ligar Street Ballarat when he enlisted on July 9th 1915. He embarked from Sydney just before Christmas 1915 on the Berrima, and in March 1916 he joined the 15th Field Company Engineers in Egypt. He was transferred to the 5th Pioneer Battalion but much of 1916 and 1917 involved hospitalisation in England due to illness, particularly a ventral hernia. He rejoined his unit in late 1917 and served through until the end of hostilities. He sailed from England in early June 1919 aboard the Beltana, and disembarked at Melbourne on July 19th. He died in April 1968 at the age of 75.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as F.W.R. Beecham.