FOORD, Noel Augustine
| Service Numbers: | 20545, S81222 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 May 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 26 July 1899 |
| Home Town: | Peterborough (Formerly Petersburg), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Bank Officer |
| Died: | Natural Causes, 21 June 1998, aged 98 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Aldinga Uniting Church Cemetery, SA New, East Sect. 3, Plot 31 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide English, Scottish & Australian (ES&A) Bank Great War Honour Roll, Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Sydney (ANZ) English, Scottish and Australian Bank Great War Roll of Honour, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Aug 1918: | Involvement Private, 20545, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: SS Gaika embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 6 Aug 1918: | Embarked Private, 20545, Army Medical Corps (AIF), SS Gaika, Adelaide |
World War 2 Service
| 12 May 1942: | Involvement Lieutenant, S81222 | |
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| 12 May 1942: | Enlisted Peterborough, SA | |
| 12 May 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, S81222 | |
| 29 Nov 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
20545 Noel Augustine FOORD was born in Adelaide on 26 July 1899. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 9 October 1911 by his father, Edwin James Foord, a telegraphist, of Wehl Street, Mount Gambier, He left school in May 1914339 and joined the E.S. & A. Bank in Mount Gambier in early June.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 15 January 1918 (18, bank clerk, single, Methodist) naming his father, Edwin James Foord of Forestville, South Australia, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Gaika’ on 6 August 1918 as part of Australian Medical Corps General Reinforcements, disembarked at London on 13 October 1918 and was attached to the Australian Army Medical Corps Training Depot. He was hospitalised with tonsillitis from 6 to 12 March 1919, attached to 6th Sanitation Section Australian Medical Corps Details on 18 April 1919, and left England on 18 December 1919 for return to Australia on the ‘Konigin Luise’ as one of its nursing staff, disembarked on 2 February 1920, and was discharged from the AIF on 26 February.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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