GOODIER, Frederick Hall
| Service Number: | 7489 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Walkerville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hotel Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 18 September 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gilberton Soldiers Memorial Swimming Reserve, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 7489, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
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| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 7489, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Nicholas Egan
Margaret Phillips
Club Historian Gilberton Amateur Swimming Club Inc.
Frederick was born in Broken Hill but was educated at Port Adelaide and East Adelaide Public Schools.
Fred enlisted at Mitcham and embarked for France on 30 October 1917, arriving at Calais on 1 April 1918. Three days later he reported to the General Hospital in Calais with Scarlet Fever. He re-joined his unit in the field in France on 22 June 1918 and was killed in action on 18 September 1918. His body was never found. His Will provided for his estate to be left to Mrs Louise Kinoch, 20 Mann Terrace, North Adelaide.
His 24 year old brother Charles Allen Goodier had already enlisted on 20 August 1915 and had joined the 6 th Field Company Engineers as a driver. He had embarked for overseas on the HMAT A40 Ceramic on 24 November 1915 from Sydney and returned to Australia on 19 February 1919.