Lieutenant William Christian BEEKEN, a 25 year old Draper from "Woodley", Godwin Street, Bexley, New South Wales. He enlisted on 3 September 1914 and was allotted to the 3rd Battalion F Company which embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 20 October 1914. Subsequently BEEKEN was Wounded in Action, 7 May 1915 and then Killed in Action, 6 August 1915.

Sydney Mail, 26 May 1915, p. 8.

The photograph is of Lieutenant William Christian BEEKEN in the uniform of a Captain with the Senior Cadets and prior to the Great War.