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fm^mmi f" w "\ 1. J .1 ARTHUR WILLIAM BESOMO Surf Life Saver BORN: c.1908 DIED: 24 April, 1938, Port Hackfrig, N.S.W. AGE: 29 years GRAVE: 4077-4078 General Select, Section 21 Arthur Besomo was "a leading amateur swimmer and surfer," wrote the SMH in its obituary. "About nine years ago Mr Besomo won the 100 yards swimming champsionship of New South Wales. Mr Victor Besomo, a younger brother, is also a well-known swimmer, and is honorary secretary of the Bondi Surf [Bathers] Life Saving Club." Arthur represented the Bondi Club for over ten years. "After Manly and North Narrabeen had dominated the Surf Teams or Relays, Bondi finally broke their stranglehold with the team of Arthur Besomo, Owen Griffiths, Reg Stevens and Alan Rennix in 1929", relates Gladiators of the Surf. This book lists the Australian Championships Results with Arthur Besomo's name amongst the winners in the Senior Rescue and Resusitation 1931-32,1934-35,1935-46; the Senior Surf Team of 1928-29; the Junior Belt of 1927-28. During the year or two prior to his death, "Mr Besomo had not enjoyed good health, having suffered twice from pneumonia," continued the SMH. He died suddenly whUe on a fishing expedition at Gibbon Point, Port Hacking. "A few minutes after reaching their fishing ground, Mr Besomo complained of feeling ill and cold. He lay down on a rock, covered with a blazer and sweater, while his friends prepared tea, but during their absence of only a few minutes he died." The funeral was attended "by about 100 members of the Bondi, North Bondi, and other surf clubs and many business associates and friends." In his memory, the Bondi S.B.L.S.C. presents a shield caUed the A.W. Besomo Memorial Trophy, the competetion being a six man team race between patiols held each season. SOURCE: Waverley Cemetery Archives; Australian Surfing and Surf Life Saving by Jack Wilson; Bondi S.B.L.S.C. Minutes Book 1938; Gladiators of the Surf by Barry Galton; History of Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club 1906- 1956; SMH 26-4-1938. Portrait source: Arthur Besomo (beltman). Australian Surfing and Surf Life Saving.
WALTER V.H. BIDDELL Surf Life Saving BORN: 6 May 1859, Croydon, Surrey England DIED: 23 April, 1933, Sydney AGE: 79 years GRAVE: 2550-2551 General Select, Section 16 Biddell was another, along with John Bond [q.v.], associated with the early beginnings of Surf Lfre Saving in AustiaUa. "A plump,bald-pated, powerfully built, dictorial middle-agedenthusiast...familiarly known to surfers of his time as 'Biddy'," states Surf, Australians against the Sea. "Biddell was requested by the Waverley Borough Council to form a brigade on Bronte Beach which was to have complete charge of all lifesaving applicances. Being the kind of man he was, within a few months Biddell had formed three brigades, men, women, and children. Generously he financed their every activity, but in management he brooked no rival; he drove those brigades as he drove his beautifully matched pair of chestnut buggy ponies." Biddell also sponsored and financed the "first specially built boat for surf life saving," relates Stan Vesper of Bronte S.L.S.C. This surf boat, named the Albatross, was launched at Bronte Beach in September 1907. "The Albatross proved too small for even moderate sized waves and was more successful in calmer conditions. Standards set by this pioneer craft are basically still being followed today," Stan Vesper wrote. "Between running his baking powder business in Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, and fighting with councils over their attempts to regulate swimming costumes and to segregate the men from the women in the water, Biddell also found time to invent a torpedo buoy for rescue work. Amid much publicity, it was tried out at Bronte on Boxing Day, 1908," related The Sun. It was cigar shaped and made of cork towed behind the beltman in order to support several bathers at the same time. He caUed it Dr Lee's torpedo buoy after the baking powder he manufactured. "In his lifetime Biddell was called 'the father of surfing' but his name is now forgotten," concluded The Sun. SOURCE: Waverley Cemetery Archives; Australian Dictionary of Biography 'Vol.7; Surf, Australians against the Sea by C.Bede Maxtvell; Stan Vesper of Bronte S.L.S.C; Bronte S.L.S.C. Archives at Waverley Library; The Sun 18-11-1980; SMH 26-4-1933. Portrait source: Waverley Library, Local History Collection
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60 WALTER MOEFITT MARKS Yachtsman,
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80 ARTHUR RYAN Jockey BORN: c.1870
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82 PHILIP SHERIDAN Cricket Official
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