George Beamish

Air Marshal Sir George Robert Beamish KCB, CBE, RAF (29 April 1905–13 November 1967) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force from the Second World War to his retirement in the late 1950s. Prior to World War II, whilst Beamish was in the RAF, he was a keen rugby union player, playing for Leicester Tigers and being capped 26 times for Ireland. He was also the chairman of the RAF Rugby Union and an Air Force rugby selector.

George Beamish was born in Ireland on 29 April 1905. He attended the Coleraine Academical Institution [http://www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk/schools/Coleraine_Academical_Institution.html] and he and his three brothers went on to join the RAF.

From 1923 Beamish attended the RAF College, Cranwell as a flight cadet and after he was commissioned in late 1924, Beamish was posted as a pilot on No. 100 Squadron.

Reference

* [http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Beamish.htm Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation - Air Marshal Sir George Beamish]

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