WOODS, George Ernest
| Service Number: | 30818 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 15th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Longford, Tasmania, Australia, 23 May 1875 |
| Home Town: | Burnie, Burnie, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22 July 1951, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Preston General Cemetery, Bundoora, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 30818, 15th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 30818, 15th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 30818, 15th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 27 Jul 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 30818, 15th Field Artillery Brigade , ex England to Melbourne per Demosthenes | |
| 3 Oct 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 30818, 15th Field Artillery Brigade , Hobart |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner George Ernest Woods (Service No:30818) enlisted in the AIF on 4 October 1916 and served with 15th Field Artillery Brigade. Gunner Woods embarked on 23 November 1916 from Melbourne to Plymouth on board HMAT A20 Hororata and embarked from England to Melbourne on 27 July 1917 on board HT Demosthenes. Gunner Woods was Discharged in Hobart on 31 October 1917. In his Attestation Paper, he stated he had previously served in the Boer War with 12th Light Horse and Hobart Rifles (National Archives Australia).
Born in 1875 in Longford Tasmania, George was the eighth of eleven children of Charles William Govette Woods (b1835 in George Town, Tasmania) and Julia Ann Jones (b1839 in Evandale, Tasmania). Charles (a Shepherd) and Julia married in 1855 in Launceston Tasmania and lived in George Town and Campbell Town. Following Charles' death in 1879, Julia remarried.
George worked as a Labourer in Ulverstone and in 1898 married Ada Agnes Jane Grigg (b1874 at Deloraine, Tasmania). Following Agnes' death in 1898, George remarried at Wivenhoe in 1900 to Emily Mabel Radford (b1878 in Penguin, Tasmania). George and Emily lived in Burnie and Circular Head where George was a Farmer before moving to Melbourne by the late 1920s. George worked as a Labourer in Melbourne, where Emily died in 1943. George died in 1951.