Life Summary

Name	Leonard Beadell
Born	21 April, 1923 Pennant Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	12 May, 1995 (aged 72) Elizabeth Vale, South Australia, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Education *	Gladesville Public School (NSW) (student, 1928-1930) Burwood Public School (student, 1930-1937) Sydney Grammar School (student, 1938-1939)
Occupation or Descriptor *	surveyor (1939-1941) New South Wales, Australia soldier (1941-1948) Federal, Australia surveyor (1941-1948) Federal, Australia explorer (1946-1968) South Australia, Australia surveyor (1949-1950) New South Wales, Australia surveyor (1950-1988) South Australia, Australia road engineer (1952-1965) South Australia, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1965-1995) South Australia, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (army officer)
Awards	British Empire Medal (recipient, 1957) Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1988) Advance Australia Award (recipient, 1989)
Legacies *	asteroid 3161 Beadell (eponym) Eucalyptus canescens subsp. beadellii (eponym) Len Beadell Library (Salisbury, Adelaide) (eponym) Mount Beadell (Gibson Desert, WA) (eponym)
Workplaces *	Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (Sydney) (employee, 1940-1941) Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (Sydney) (employee, 1949-1950) Long Range Weapons Establishment, Woomera (employee, 1950-1988)

* Dates are approximate

Australian Dictionary of Biography