GODDARD, Albert Clyde
| Service Number: | F5338 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 June 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 12 July 1926 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 15 July 2015, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-595526-B6T3Z4/KC00198332 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Jun 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, F5338, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot) | |
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| 29 Jul 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, F5338, HMAS Penguin (IV) 1939-1940/HMAS Brisbane 1940-1942/HMAS Moreton (I) 1942-1994 (Depot) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Able Seaman Albert Clyde Goddard (Service No:F5338) enlisted in the RAN as an Ordinary Seaman (HMAS Cerberus) on 12 June 1944. Promoted to Able Seaman (HMAS Hobart) on 11 April 1945, he was Discharged (HMAS Penguin) on 29 July 1946.
Born in 1926 in Perth WA, Clyde was second of ten children of George Edward Goddard (b1902 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Audrey Phyllis Browning (b1905 in London, England) - Audrey immigrated in 1913, arriving in Fremantle, WA on board the Australind. George had moved to Perth with his parents and siblings in the early 1900s, and was an Ironmonger in Perth in 1924 when he and Audrey married. The couple lived in Perth before moving to Katanning in the 1930s, where George was a Labourer. Returning to Perth in the mid 1930s, George worked as a Labourer, Motor Assembler and Process Worker.
Clyde worked as a Clerk before enlisting in the RAN - employment he returned to in Perth following his Discharge in 1946. In 1948 in Perth, Clyde married Meira Patricia Ball (nee Hanlon; b 1923 in Hampshire, England) - Meira (a Divorcee) had immigrated in 1927, arriving in Fremantle, WA on board the Orvieto. Clyde and Meira settled in Perth where they raised their family and Clyde worked as a Clerk. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday Honours, Clyde was awarded an OAM 'For services to the community of Shenton Park, particularly youth and senior citizens' (Trove; 2002). Meira died in 2009 and Clyde in 2015.