Ernest John GOLDEN

GOLDEN, Ernest John

Service Number: 6538
Enlisted: 10 November 1916, Longreach, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 26th Infantry Battalion
Born: Charters Towers, Queensland, 1 April 1893
Home Town: Winton, Winton, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Motor Driver
Died: Suicide (gunshot), Queensland, 14 January 1931, aged 37 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

10 Nov 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Longreach, Queensland
7 Feb 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6538, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Feb 1917: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6538, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney
14 Jun 1919: Discharged AIF WW1

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Biography

GSW right arm in France on 28 Jul 1918 - Evacuated to England

"Peter Forrest was on his way to the Pumping Station, when he made the startling discovery of a man seated in the driver's seat of a car with a double barrel gun between his legs, gripped in his left hand, his right hand holding the trigger. The deceased turned out to be Ernest John Golden and had been dead some hours. He was a returned soldier and suffered a great deal from gas trouble. He was a married man with three little children and his wife is at present an inmate of the Charters Towers Hospital." - from the Townsville Daily Bulletin 26 Jan 1931 (nla.gov.au)

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