GOODSELL, Herbert George
Service Number: | 1915 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Robertsbridge, Sussex, 1891 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 28 September 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Ypres Grave I. C. 3 (Jt.) INSCRIPTION THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY , Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Pine Point Muloowurtie Memorial Institute |
World War 1 Service
13 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 1915, 50th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
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13 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 1915, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Dec 1891 Goodsell Herbert George Ticehurst 2b 104
Age on arrival in Australia 18
Enlistment date 13 April 1916
Age at embarkation 23
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/67/3
Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee on 13 July 1916.
50th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement, Australian Infantry. 4th Australian Division. Killed in action near Ypres .
He was 24 and the son of Thomas & Annie Goodsell ‘Higham’ Salehurst, later of Maidstone, Kent. Husband of Mrs. Edith Ellen Goodsell of Pine Point, Muloowurtie, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
His brother, Corporal Percival Thomas Goodsell TF.2233, 1/5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment 1st Division died of wounds 10th May 1915. Aged 21.Interred in Bethune Town Cemetery, France, Grave F. 80
He is remembered on the Salehurst and the Robertsbridge War Memorials.
SALEHURST WAR MEMORIAL
There are 40 names recorded on a large brass plate behind the pulpit in the church of St. Mary the Virgin. The memorial includes all the men recorded on the Memorial in Robertsbridge High Street except one. There is also a handwritten Roll of Honour for all who served.
ROBERTSBRIDGE WAR MEMORIAL
Robertsbridge is a small village 5 miles from Battle. St Mary's Church, Salehurst, is about 1 mile from Robertsbridge and serves both villages.