WOODFORDE, Hector Sidney Ridout
| Service Number: | 5503 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916, Warwick, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia , 1894 |
| Home Town: | Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba Grammar School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 February 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Goondiwindi War Memorial, Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 Honour Board, Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 In Memoriam Honour Board, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial), Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5503, 12th Infantry Battalion, Warwick, Qld. | |
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| 20 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 5503, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 20 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 5503, 12th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William Sidney Ridout Woodforde, M.B., C.M., and Annette Juner Ridout Woodforde, of Goondiwindi, Queensland.
HECTOR WOODFORDE.
Late on Monday night the sad news was conveyed to Dr. and Mrs. Ridout Woodforde that their son Hector had been killed in action on the Western Front on February 25. The late Private Hector Sidney Ridout Woodforde was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School, and his happy, sunny disposition endeared him to a wide circle of friends.
Another Goondiwindi boy to lose his life for the Empire was Hector Woodforde, son of Dr. Woodforde, of Goondiwindi. His mother is a cousin of Jerome K. Jerome, the writer, and the family have been more than twenty years residents of Goondiwindi, where Hector was born.
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