A0034887B VICTORIA ABN 82 104 322 096		Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc. (formerly Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society 1953-70 )	P.O. Box 7016 BEAUMARIS VIC 3193
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*	Arthur Boyd, the distinguished Australian painter, lived in Surf Avenue (possibly at No. 26) from May 1955 until at least the late 1950s.
*	Ivor Evans, as a young man, was a co-designer of the Australian Flag. He lived at 'White Sails', 480 Beach Road, (the house bounded by a red line in the aerial photograph shown here) between Banksia Street and Cromer Road, during the 1950s.
*	John Iggulden, a novelist and Life Member of the Gliding Federation of Australia, was an industrialist, Australian National Gliding Champion in 1959, founding President of Port Phillip Conservation Council, and lived at 50 Wells Road in the 1960s and 1970s.
*	William Iggulden MBE, brother of John Iggulden, was an industrial designer and the longest-serving President of the Gliding Federation of Australia 1951-70, who lived at 2 Balcombe Park Lane, until his death in 1970.
*	Air Marshall Sir George Jones KBE CB DFC was Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force, 1942-52 and lived at 104 Cromer Road, just north of Armstrong Street, after retiring.
*	Hon. Richard McGarvie AC QC, Victorian Supreme Court Judge 1976-92, lived on the west side of Coreen Avenue. He was Governor of Victoria 1992-7
*	Bruce Ruxton AM OBE, President of the Victorian Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia 1979-2002, lived in Glenwood Avenue.
*	Arthur Schutt MBE, a pioneer of the light aircraft operating industry at Moorabbin Airport, lived on the north-west corner of Deauville Street and Powys Drive, after World War II.
*	Sir Rupert Stawell, a leading surgeon, after whom nearby Stawell Street was named, lived at "Coronet Hill", 10 Coronet Grove, during the late 19th Century. [That house is still intact, is on National Trust File No. B5551, and later became the home of the first President of the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society, Mrs Bea Hosking]
*	Sir Lawrence Wackett DFC AFC, the first Duntroon graduate to join the Australian Flying Corps in World War I, made daring reconnaissance flights as far as 16 km behind Germany’s Hindenburg Line defences, and developed precision aerial drops of ammunition to ground troops, and, after retiring from the RAAF as a Wing Commander in 1933, became a leading aircraft designer and chief of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, where his work led to his being knighted in 1954. He later became the inaugural Commodore of the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron, and lived at 'Aanderzee', 31 Tramway Parade, at its junction with Sparks and Rennison Streets, from the 1930s to 1970.. [Each of 2 driveway gates still displays his crest of 3 clenched boomerangs with the motto "VICTORIA NON SINE ADVERSITE", which means "Victory is not without adversity."]

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