Cemetery: Runnymede Memorial
Country: England
Area: Surrey
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Royal Air Force
Official Number: 1578410
Unit: 57 Sqdn.
Country of Service: British
Details:
17/12/44 Aged 24 Panel 215. Son of John and Sarah Beardshaw; husband of Helen Beardshaw, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
John (from Birmingham) met his Jewish wife Helen Rudie whilst training as an Air Gunner in Canada and converted to Judaism; they married in synagogue in Montreal and she joined him on his return to UK. Sadly he was KIA only 6 months later
Photograph by David Ayling