Ralph Gordon GOODALL

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GOODALL, Ralph Gordon

Service Number:	6788
Enlisted:	17 April 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	25th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 August 1899
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Margate, Queensland, Australia, 27 August 1976, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld

World War 1 Service

17 Apr 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion
14 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
14 Jun 1917:	Embarked Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
12 Jun 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion, France - Shell Wound
29 Jul 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion, France - GSW to hand
28 Nov 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion, per D33
23 Feb 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6788, 25th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Ralph was the youngest of two sons of Albert McLean Goodall (born 1865 in London) and Agnes Christianne Reese (born 1869 in Sale, Victoria). Ralph immigrated with his parents and siblings to Rockhampton, QLD in 1870 and was a Bootmaker in Brisbane, QLD in 1896 when he married Agnes. Albert and Agnes lived in Brisbane, where Albert was a Boot Importer, Salesman and Warehouseman.

Ralph was living in Brisbane, QLD and working as a Salesman when he enlisted in the AIF in April 1917 - older brother Stanley enlisted in May 1917 and they both embarked in June 1916 on board the HMAT Honorata. Ralph was a Private (Service No: 6788) with 25th Infantry Battalion and was WIA in France in 1918 on two occasions.

Discharged in February 1919 Ralph returned to Brisbane, QLD where he worked as a Salesman and in 1925 he married Dorothy Elizabeth Keech (born 1903 in Gympie, QLD). Their son, Norman Joseph (born in 1918) served witht the RAAF in WWII. Ralph was mostly unemployed after the War, apart from a brief period in the 1950s when he was a Farmer in Redcliffe, QLD. Ralph died at Redcliffe in 1976.

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