GOODMAN, William John
Service Number: | 3520 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Christchurch, New Zealand, 3 December 1878 |
Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Tramway Signalling Worker |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 4 March 1917, aged 38 years |
Cemetery: |
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension VI B 23 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
Biography contributed by John Oakes
William John GOODMAN (Service Number 3520) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 3rd December 1878. He married in NSW in 1898. In December 1909 he joined the Interlocking [Signalling] Branch of the NSW Government Railways and Tramways at Sydney as a labourer. In 1911 he was promoted to skilled labourer, and in 1912 to assistant sectionman. In 1913 he was working on the signalling of the Tramways and was moved to Botany Road as assistant sectionman. In October 1915 he was released from duty to enlist in the AIF in Sydney.
He embarked from Sydney in December 1915, aboard HMAT ‘Aeneas’, with the 'Tramways Battalion’ of reinforcements especially recruited from the Tramways. He was sent to Egypt and joined the 17th Battalion there. In March 1916 he was sent with them to France.
On 28 February 1917 was wounded in the abdomen from a grenade.
He died of his wounds at a casualty clearing station on 4th March 1917. He was buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, two miles SSW of Albert. A war pension was granted to his widow.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board