Phillip Ernest GOOD

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GOOD, Phillip Ernest

Service Numbers:	2595, 4571
Enlisted:	13 September 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 1881
Home Town:	Kyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria
Schooling:	Kyneton Grammar School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Estate Agent
Died:	War Service related , Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 August 1923
Cemetery:	Kyneton Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Kyneton Honour Roll, Kyneton Presbyterian Church Honor Roll WW1

World War 1 Service

13 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2595, 13th Light Horse Regiment
18 Jun 1915:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Infantry Battalion
23 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 4571, 23rd Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Melbourne
23 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 4571, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
22 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4571, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Ypres, Belgium; GSW hand and face; blind right eye, deaf right ear
30 Jan 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4571, 23rd Infantry Battalion, embarked Weymouth for Melbourne on board HT A14 Euripides
12 Sep 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4571, 23rd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Phillip Ernest Good (Service Nos:2595/4571) enlisted in the AIF on 13 September 1914 and served with 13th Light Horse Regiment and 14th Infantry Battalion. Due to the loss of his original Attestation Papers, Private Good was reattested on 20 March 1916 and was attached to 23rd Infantry Battalion on 21 March 1916 when he embarked from Melbourne for England on board RMS Malwa. Private Good was WiA at Ypres, Belgium on 22 September 1917, suffering GSWs to his face and hand which left him blind in his right eye, deaf in his right ear and 'tremulous' (NAA). Private Good embarked from Weymouth for Melbourne on 30 January 1918 on board HT A14 Euripedes. Discharged on 12 September 1918, Private Good was hospitalised frequently for treatment at No 11 Australian General Hospital in Caulfield, Melbourne.

Born in 1881 in Kyneton Victoria, Phillip was sixth 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 where they raised their family and William worked as an Estate Agent and Salesman. Four of their sons - James (also served in the Boer War), William, Phillip and Robert - served in WWi.

Phillip worked in Kyneton as an Estate Agent and Ironmonger - in 1910 he was Summonsed by the Kyneton Court of Petty Sessions and fined because he 'did furiously ride a certain horse through a public place (Kyneton)' (Peter Reidie, Constable of Police). Following his Discharge in 1918, Phillip returned to Kyneton and worked as a Land Agent, with frequent periods for treatment in Caulfield at No 11 AGH. In 1922 Phillip married Louisa May Greene (b1866 in Bendigo, Victoria). Phillip and Elizabeth lived in Kyneton until Phillip's death 'from war causes' (NAA) in 1923. Elizabeth died in 1957.

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