GOYDER, Alan George
| Service Number: | 3180 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, 11 May 1918, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Corrigin & District Great War Roll of Honor, Corrigin War Memorial, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Nedlands Scotch College WW1 Honour Roll, Nedlands Scotch College WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3180, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: RMS Karmala embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 12 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3180, 10th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Karmala, Fremantle | |
| 11 May 1918: | Involvement Trooper, 3180, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3180 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1918-05-11 | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 3180, 10th Light Horse Regiment |
Alan Goyder reference to Alan Goyder WW1
Refer to link to Ian Woodroffe GOYDER WW2. The following is an extract from that story:
Both Ian’s Father and his Father’s brother enlisted in the 10th Light Horse. His Father Evan had Service Number 3181, and his Uncle Alan had Service Number 3180. On 12 February 1917 they both embarked on the RMS Karmala and saw active service in Palestine.
His Father survived and returned to Australia on the Oxfordshire and disembarked in Fremantle on 4 August 1919.
Ian’s Uncle, Alan George Goyder, on 30 April 1918 at the age of 21 was shot in the abdomen while fighting to capture the village of Es Salt, in what was then Palestine. He was left at the hospital when the Australians withdrew, and became a prisoner of the Turks. He hung on to life for another eight days before his gunshot wounds led to his death as a PoW at the surgical hospital in Damascus.
Edith Johncock, of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society recorded that, "He was with us at the surgical hospital Damascus for about two days," she said. "It was impossible to operate. He was conscious and died of hemorrhage in the night. He was not in very much pain, but gangrene had set in. "I used to dress his wounds and talked to him and nursed him."
Ian has a letter sent to Alan Goyder's mother by a corporal, Geoffrey Dobbs, written on May 12, 1918.
"I am very sorry to inform you that your son died quite suddenly yesterday evening," it reads.
"He was quite cheerful up to the end and suffered no pain."
Submitted 5 August 2024 by Brian Jennings
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