GOODRIDGE, Charles Fredrick
| Service Number: | W33683 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 January 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Claremont, Western Australia, 28 September 1918 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Apprentice Joiner and Machinist |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 11 October 2008, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W33683 | |
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| 16 Oct 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W33683 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Charles Fredrick Goodridge (Service No:W33683) served in the ACMF with 56 Field Park Coy from 3 January 1940 to 16 October 1942.
The eighth of eleven children of Ernest Goodridge (b1882; Croydon, Surrey) and Caroline Lowder (b1883 in Kent, England), Charles was born in 1918 in Claremont, Fremantle WA. Ernest (a General Shop Dealer) and Caroline (a Wardrobe Dealer) married in 1900 in Kent, England and settled in Surrey where Ernest was a Marine Shop Dealer. In 1914 Ernest and Caroline immigrated, arriving with their five children in Fremantle on board the Australind - Ernest stated his occupation as Labourer. The family lived in Collie WA in 1915 when Ernest served briefly in the AIF (Private; Service No:3837) - having given his occupation as Plasterer and Driver in his Attestation Papers. In 1916 the family was in Leederville, Perth where Ernest worked as a Fireman. In the early 1920s Ernest was awarded land at Bramley Siding nr Cowaramup WA under the Group 17 Settlement Scheme and by the late 1920s had returned to Perth where Ernest worked as a Storeman.
In 1939 Charles was an Apprentice Joiner and Machinist in Perth and, following his service with the ACMF, was in Perth in 1943 when he married Norma May Morgan (b1925 in Perth, WA). Charles and Norma settled in Perth where Charles worked as a Sawyer and Machinist before joining the Post Master General's Department as a Carpenter. Norma died in 2007 and Charles in 2008.