Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Goode, George Noakes Macaulay

Lt G M Goode 47th Battalion, taken a Messines, France 7th June 1917, He was shot in the Face that afternoon, & Died on 12/6/1917

Born 1884 Camden New South Wales the son of George and Harriet Goode, an electrical engineer and farmer, he enlisted Brighton Tasmania and embarked Melbourne 22^nd September 1914 on board “HMAT Geelong” with the 3^rd Field Company Engineers.

He served on the Gallipoli Peninsula and on 19^th March 1916 he was appointed Lance Corporal whilst serving with the 3^rd Light Horse Brigade and by 8^h November 1916 had reached the rank of Lieutenant.

Lieutenant George Noakes Macauley Goode was serving with the 47^th Battalion when he died at the 10^th Stationary Hospital France from wounds received when shot in the face by a sniper on 7 june 1917, while leading "B" Company 5th Platoon into action at "Hun's Corner" Messines France. He was buried in the Longuenesse (St.Omer) Souvenir Cemetery.

His Brother (Lance Corporal 44) William John Goode (enlisted N.S.W) died 8 may 1915 in Alexandria from a gunshot wound to the head received at Gallipoli.

GOODE.-Lieutenant George Noakes Macaulay Goode of Coolquay, Hastings, Tasmania, eldest son of the late George Goode, Esq., M.A., M D., M. Ch., of Orange, N.S.W., nephew of late W. H. Goode, Esq, M.A., M.D , M. Ch , R.N., Macquarie Street, Sydney, grandson of the late D. Riddiford Esq., Wobura, Wellington, N.Z., and brother of the late Sergeant W. J. Goode, A.I.F., died of wounds, June 6, 1917, somewhere in France. Home, N.Z., and Tasmanian papers please copy.

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