Eric Ralf GOODE

GOODE, Eric Ralf

    Service Number: 450
    Enlisted: 15 August 1914, Morphettville
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Port Pirie, South Australia, 30 May 1893
    Home Town: Burnside (SA), Burnside City Council, South Australia
    Schooling: Kyre College, South Australia
    Occupation: Clerk
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 27 April 1915, aged 21 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burnside & District - Fallen Soldiers Memorial Trees - Rose Park, Hazelwood Park (Knightsbridge) War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Port Pirie Oval WW1 Memorial Gates
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    World War 1 Service

    15 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 450, 10th Infantry Battalion, Morphettville
    19 Aug 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 450, 10th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, Morphettville, South Australia
    20 Oct 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 450, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
    27 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 450, 10th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed in action

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    Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

    His older brother, 528 Cpl. Gordon Powell Goode 3rd Australian Light Horse, died of sickness in Egypt 16 October 1915, age 30. 

    Goode Road in Port Pirie was named in memory of the two brothers.

    Biography

    "PTE. E. R. GOODE.

    Pte. Eric Rolph Goode, who was killed in the operations against the Turks, was the youngest son of the late Mr. W. Goode, of Port Pirie, and Mrs. W. Goode, of Burnside. He was serving with the 10th Battalion, and was 21 years of age." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 26 Jun 1915 (nla.gov.au)

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