GOOD, Robert Bruce
| Service Number: | 1012 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Kyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Kyneton Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 January 1969, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: | Kyneton Honour Roll, Kyneton Presbyterian Church Honor Roll WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 1012, 4th Field Ambulance | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Driver, 1012, 4th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Driver, 1012, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 21 Apr 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 1012, 4th Field Ambulance, embarked England for Melbourne per HT Suevic | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1012, 4th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver Robert Bruce Good (Service No:1012) enlisted in the AIF on 15 September 1914 and embarked with 4th Field Ambulance for Egypt on 22 December 1914 on board Transport A45 Berrmia. Hospitalised in Suez with Influenza, Driver Good then served in France, where he was hosptialised with Typhoid Fever and Trench Fever. Private Good embarked from England for Melbourne on 21 April 1918 'for change' on board HT Suevic and was Discharged on 23 August 1918.
As Corporal (Service No:V84620) he served in the ACMF from 10 June 1940 to 8 August 1952. Son Robert served in the RAAF (Service No:449284).
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. Eldest 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, and in 1924 in Melbourne he married Heather Jean Gray (b1904 in Kyneton, Victoria). Robert - a War Pensioner - worked sporadically between treatment at Caulfield Military Hospital in Factories and the family moved around, living in Taradale, Campbell's Creek, Bendigo, Mordialloc and Aspendale before Divorcing in 1938 - Heather had deserted Robert and the children. Robert was in Melbourne in 1940 and working as a Clerk when he enlisted in the ACMF. In 1945 he remarried in Melbourne to Lily Edith Weir (b1909 in Melbourne, Victoria). Following his Discharge in 1952, Robert and Lily lived in Melbourne where Robert died in 1969. Lily died in 1993.