William Andrew Beacom papers
Collection
The collection consists of correspondence; documents, including rate and rent notices, taxation forms, ration cards and tickets, licences and certificates; accounts and financial papers, including cheque book butts and bank passbooks; pamphlets and miscellaneous printed matter, newspapers, serials photographs and sheet music. The collection relates to two main subject fields: William Beacom's work as a dairy farmer, and also to the two world wars. A considerable portion of the correspondence consists of letters received by Beacom from friends and relations serving with the AIF during the First World War, in Europe and the Middle East.
William Beacom came to Queensland from New Zealand in 1911, and worked first as an itinerant farm labourer, later acquiring his own dairy farm at Peeramon, 8 miles from Malanda on the Atherton Tableland. After his death his cabin was moved and incorporated into the North Queensland Museum of Natural Resources which was opened in 1971 under the management of Howard Jones of Kuranda.
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