GODEBYE, Charles Henry
| Service Number: | 1351 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 December 1914, 2yrs Cadets, 7mths 4th infantry Battalion |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 31 March 1896 |
| Home Town: | Howard, Fraser Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | The Junction, New South Wales, Australia, 5 July 1926, aged 30 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-120. 27. |
| Memorials: | Childers Isis North State School Great War Honour Board, Shire of Howard Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1351, 9th Infantry Battalion, 2yrs Cadets, 7mths 4th infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1351, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1351, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Brisbane | |
| 25 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 49th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 20 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 11th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 7 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 10th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 26 Jul 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 22 Aug 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 7 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
95 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 7th July 1926, Lieutenant Charles Henry Godebye, 4th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column (Reg No-1351), grocer from C/O Jack and Mary Ann Collins, Howard, Queensland and 27 Bull Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W. and 156 Union Street, The Junction, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 30. ANGLICAN 2-120. 27.
Born at Maryborough, Queensland on the 31st March 1896 to George Samuel and Marianne or Mary Ann Godebye nee O'Brien; husband of Annie Cecily Godebye nee Gallagher (married 1921, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1964, 38 years a widow), Charles enlisted December 1914 with the 9th Battalion at Maryborough, Queensland.
Mr. Godebye’s name has been inscribed on the Isis North State School Roll of Honour.
There is no indication inscribed on Charles’s headstone of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Charles’s gravesite to honour his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Older brother Alfred Eugene (11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, Reg No-439, born 1892, died 1967) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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