(1897 – 1976)

Educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, Frank Reginald Beasley was sent for reasons of health in 1914 to join relations in Western Australia. On 10 May 1915 he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served with the 11th Battalion at Gallipoli and in France; he was promoted to lieutenant on 21 November 1916. Granted leave in 1919, he studied with the Council of Legal Education, London, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated (BA, 1920) with honours in jurisprudence. He returned to Australia and was demobilized in October 1920. in 1927 Beasley was appointed foundation Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia

He was appointed acting Vice-Chancellor following the death of H. E. Whitfeld in 1939.

Called up for full-time duty with the Militia in October 1941, Captain Beasley was seconded on 27 July 1942 as Deputy Assistant Adjutant- General at 4th Divisional headquarters, Western Australia. Having transferred to the AIF, he was promoted to temporary major in September, but lack of opportunity for active service prompted his return in 1943 to the University where tuition in law had been suspended.

Photograph from UWA Archives 20501P
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