Herbert John GOODMAN

GOODMAN, Herbert John

Service Number: 395
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: Victorian Citizen Bushmen
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Mansfield, Mansfield, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Drover
Died: Killed in Action, Koster River, South Africa, 22 July 1900, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Mansfield Boer War Memorial, Melbourne Grammar School Anglican Chapel of St. Peter Boer War Memorial Window
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Sergeant, 395
1 Oct 1899: Involvement Sergeant, 395, Victorian Citizen Bushmen

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

At Mansfield there is a monument which has been erected to the memory of an old Melbournian, Herbert John Goodman, who, as sergeant in the Bushmen's Corps, lost his life in South Africa in July, 1900.  After his name and the date of his death, &c., are the words, "No surrender" which was the keynote of Goodman's fighting, and was the secret f his dreadful death, for his body was riddled by Boer bullets when he refused to hold up his hands.