Floresten Traviss GOODRICH

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GOODRICH, Floresten Traviss

Service Number:	4122
Enlisted:	17 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	25th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Lawrence near Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Lawrence, Clarence Valley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Cheviot Public School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 5 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Murwillumbah War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

17 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 25th Infantry Battalion
28 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4122, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
28 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4122, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Brisbane

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

His brother, Corporal Oswald Horatio Goodrich, aged 23 also fell whilst serving with the 12th Light Horse Trench Mortar Battery. He was killed by a shell splinter in the attack on Passchendaele Ridge, Belgium on the 12 of October 1917.

They were sons of Robert Bland Goodrich and Henrietta Goodrich, of Lawrence, New South Wales.

Biography contributed

Floresten Traviss GOODRICH was born in Lawrence near Grafton, NSW in 1892

His parents were Robert Bland GOODRICH & Henrietta CARTWRIGHT

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