GOODMAN, Charles Ernest
| Service Number: | 1875 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Debtford, England, 6 June 1877 |
| Home Town: | Brooklyn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Fettler |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 9 August 1918, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Mar 1915: | Involvement Private, 1875, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Mar 1915: | Embarked Private, 1875, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Charles Ernest GOODMAN (Service Number 1875) was born on 6 June 1877 in Deptford, England. He joined the NSWGR as a labourer on the Metropolitan Division of the Permanent Way Branch in February 1913, and a year later was classed as a relief fettler. He settled down as a fettler at Hawkesbury River in May 1914. In January 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Sydney.
He was killed in action in France on 9 August 1918.
Submitted 29 July 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Charles Ernest GOODMAN (Service Number 1875) was born on 6th June 1877 in Deptford, England. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a labourer in the Metropolitan Division of the Permanent Way Branch in February 1913. A year later was classed as a relief fettler. He settled down as a fettler at Hawkesbury River in May 1914. In January 1915 he enlisted in the AIF at Sydney.
He embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Shropshire’ in March 1915 He was ‘taken on strength’ by the 3rd Battalion at Gallipoli in June. He was sent to hospital sick the following month. This was in Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnos) and later in Egypt. He was suffering from Influenza. He re-joined his unit in October 1915 in Mudros. He was sent to France in March 1916. He had a fortnight’s leave in England at the end of that year.
In April 1917 it was noted that he was batman to Major A F Burrett. He re-joined his Battalion after attending a senior officers’ school in England in July. In August he was sent to hospital with trench fever. He returned to England to convalesce in October. In November he was reclassed as fully fit and sent back to France in January 1918.
He was killed in action on 9th August 1918. He was buried in Lamotte-en-Santerre Communal Cemetery Extension, 4¾ miles south east of Corbie, but his remains were later exhumed and reburied in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board