title: Basil Beazley
text: # Basil Beazley
  
  Basil Saunders Beazley (1913-1943) was a male rower who competed for England.
  
  ## Rowing career
  
  Beazley represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He was an electrical engineer by trade and lived in Newport Road, Cardiff during 1938. He was killed during World War II, in 1943 when serving as a Major with the Royal Engineers and is buried at the Syracuse War Cemetery in Sicily.
  
  