Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Sid Goodfellow enlisted in the WWII & was despatched to Singapore with great mates Clyde and Lyle Reynolds. Upond Singapore's fall Clyde was killed on the wharf very near Sid while both Lyle and he then became Prisoners of War for 3 & 1/2 years. Under brutal conditions Sid was consigned to bury his fellow diggers & mates tortured on the infamous Burma Railway always treating each digger with enormous respect, continuously talking & having normal conversations with each as if they were alive and finally wishing them well at completion of his task. He was eventually transferred to slave labour in a coalmine in Japan near Nagasaki where he witnessed the second atomic bomb leading to eventual repatriation for all slave labour prisoners. Sid marched Anzac Day while able and when unable, travelled by wheelchair with the aid of family. His volunteering and fund raising over decades to any number of charities, surf lif saving in particular, is legendary. Indeed a humane, kind and generous person with a playful larrikin streak - a true Aussie Legend!