GOOD, Robert Bruce
| Service Number: | V84620 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1896 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Kyneton Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 January 1969, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V84620 | |
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| 8 Aug 1952: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, V84620 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Robert Bruce Good (Service No:V8462) served in the ACMF from 10 June 1940 to 8 August 1952. Corporal Good was attached to HQ Base Ordnance Depot (BOD) and Army HQ. He had served in Egypt and France in WWI as a Driver (Service No:1012) with 4th Field Ambulance. Son Robert (Service No:449284) served in the RAAF in WWII.
Born in 1890 in Kyneton Victoria, Robert was eleventh of thirteen children of William Good (b1844 in Kincardineshire, Scotland) and Elizabeth Miller (b1853 in Glasgow, Scotland). William (an Agricultural Labourer) immigrated in 1868, arriving in Melbourne on board the Great Britain, and Elizabeth (a Domestic Servant) immigrated in 1869, arriving in Hobson's Bay, Victoria on board the Gresham. William and Elizabeth married in 1871 in Kyneton, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and William worked as an Estate Agent and Salesman. Son James served in the Boer War and WWI, and sons William, Phillip, and Robert served in WWI.
Robert worked as a Farm Labourer and Farmer in Kyneton prior to service in WWI, In Melbourne in 1924, Robert married his first wife Heather Jean Gray (b1904 in Kyneton, Victoria). Robert worked sporadically in Factories in between periods of treatment in Caulfield Military Hospital, and the family lived in Taradale, Campbell's Creek, Mordialloc, Bendigo and Aspendale before Robert and Heather divorced in 1938 - Heather had deserted Robert and the children. In 1940 Robert was working as a Clerk in Melbourne when he enlisted in the ACMF, and in 1945 remarried to Lily Edith Weir (b1909 in Melbourne, Victoria). Robert and Lily settled in Melbourne, where Robert died in 1969. Lily died in 1993.