Eric George GOULD

GOULD, Eric George

Service Number: 55890
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)
Born: Stratford-on-Avon, England, 16 July 1947
Home Town: Perth, Western Australia
Schooling: Tamworth, England
Occupation: Soldier
Died: Killed in Action, South Vietnam, 21 December 1969, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia
Garden of Remembrance, Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Memorials: Adelaide Pathway of Honour - 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Grafton Clarence Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Kallangur Vietnam Veterans' Place, Port Pirie Vietnam Veterans Honour Wall, Seymour Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk Roll of Honour
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Vietnam War Service

3 Sep 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 55890
17 Sep 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 55890
19 Nov 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 55890
21 Dec 1969: Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 55890, 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR)

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Eric was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1947 he was adopted by Eric and Nancy Gould as a child and lived in Tamworth. He spent the school holidays and his teen years at his grandmothers ( Jane Johnson ) in Bedale , North Yorkshire . Where his ashes are buried ( at his request )  in the Johnson family plot in St Gregory's church Bedale . Courtesy of Mal Bland