Flying Officer Beadle was serving with 625 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster II LL894 CF-T which took off from Kelstern on operations over Kiel Bay as part of Operation Gardening. It is thought the aircraft was lost over the North Sea.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
He is remembered in Forest in Teesdale on F45.03
