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'''GOODSIR, Harry Cleveland'''
'''GOODSIR, Harry Cleveland'''

Revision as of 02:44, 31 May 2018

Harry Cleveland Goodsir. Image courtesy The Harrower Collection.

GOODSIR, Harry Cleveland

Service no: 1125 [1]

Place of birth: Newcastle, 3 September, 1891

Address: Brighton Avenue, Toronto

Occupation: Sawmill manager

Next of kin: Reuben Goodsir (father), Brighton Avenue, Toronto

Date of enlistment: 14 January 1916

Place of enlistment: Newcastle

Age at enlistment: 24

Fate: Embarked HMAT A72 Beltana, Sydney, 13 May 1916. Disembarked Devonport 9 July 1916. Embarked Southampton for France 22 November 1916. Promoted to Corporal then Temporary Sergeant Major, Belgium, 12 June 1917. Wounded in action, Belgium 11 July 1917. Admitted to 11th Australian Field Ambulance 11 July 1917. Rejoined unit 7 August 1917. Promoted to Sergeant 10 August 1917. Promoted Temporary Company Sergeant Major 8 November 1917. Proceeded to England on leave 19 November 1917. Rejoined unit, Belgium, 4 December 1917. Detached to Bde School 13 January 1918. Promoted Company Sergeant Major, February 1918. Rejoined unit 23 February 1918. Recommended for Distinguished Conduct Medal for courage and steadiness, 28 February 1918. Transferred to 35th Battalion 30 April 1918. Killed in action, Villers-Bretonneux, France, 1 June 1918.

Date of death: 1 June 1918, aged 26

Buried: Villers-Brettoneux Memorial Cemetery, France, Plot 11 Row F, Grave 3

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