GOOD, James McMillan
| Service Number: | 371 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Victorian Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Kyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 10 October 1945, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Kyneton & District Boer War Honour Roll |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 371 | |
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| 28 Oct 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 371, Victorian Imperial Bushmen, embarked for South Africa on Medic | |
| 4 Dec 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 371, Victorian Imperial Bushmen, embarked for RTA on Harlech Castle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private James McMillan Good (Service No:371) served with the Victorian Imperial Bushmen in South Africa during the Boer War. Private Good enlisted on 1 October 1899 and returned from South Africa on board the Harlech Castle on 4 December 1900. Private Good later served in the AIF (Service Nos:2969/351) with 13th and 32nd Infantry Battalions. Captured at Fleurbeaux in France in 1916, Private Good was a German PoW until December 1918, and was Discharged on 30 June 1919.
Born in 1874 in Kyneton Victoria, James was the second of thirteen children of William Good (b1844 in Kincardineshire, Scotland) and Elizabeth Miller (b1853 in Glasgow, Scotland). William (an Agricultural Labourer) immigrated in 1868, arriving in Melbourne on board the Great Britain, and Elizabeth (a Domestic Servant) immigrated in 1869, arriving in Hobson's Bay on board the Gresham. William and Elizabeth married in 1871 in Kyneton, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and William worked as an Estate Agent and Salesman.
James was a Farmer in Kyneton, Victoria when he enlisted with the Victorian Imperial Bushmen, and following his service in the Boer War, returned to Kyneton where he was a Farmer until the mid 1900s. In 1915 James had been living in NSW for a number of years and working as a Traveller when he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool. Following his Discharge in 1919, James returned to Kyneton, Victoria where, in 1930, he married Ethel May Thomson (b1883 in Kyneton, Victoria) - Ethel was a Nurse at Kyneton Hospital since the early 1900s. James and Ethel settled in Kyneton, and James listed his occupation as 'Returned Soldier' in the Electoral Rolls. James died in 1945 and Ethel in 1962.