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Excerpt from Blood Sweat and Fears: Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australian who Served in World War 1. Courtesy of the Authors

Arthur Goode was born on the 12th July 1871 at Canowie Station, south west of Terowie in South Australia. He was the one of thirteen children of Thomas Goode (1835-1926) and Margaret, nee Wilson.  Thomas Goode had arrived in South Australia in February 1856 and was the Station manager for 35 years. Goode was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and Prince Alfred College. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide and graduated in 1894. Goode was a fine runner, and a prominent player in the South Adelaide Football Club. After graduation Goode went to Broken Hill until 1896 and then Norseman, WA in 1897. Goode pleaded guilty to a crime in Norseman and was convicted and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment.  However, he was not penalised in his medical registration. He came back to South Australia and moved to Peterborough and was in practice there until he enlisted for active service with the AIF in 1915.

Goode joined the AAMC on the 21st February 1916 at the age of 44 years. His next of kin was recorded as his father Thomas Goode of Westall St, Hyde Park, South Australia.  He was 5ft 8ins tall weighed 12st and of dark complexion, brown eyes, dark hair and normal vision. He embarked from the 4 MD on the 20th April 1916 on the Mooltan as AAMC re-enforcements.  He was attached to the 15th Training Bn on arrival then to 3 AGH, Brighton before moving to France on the 11th April 1917 to Abbeville and Rouen.   He spent most of December 1917 in hospital and convalescence in France and England with respiratory problems, returned to duty to the 1 AGH.  Chronic bronchitis again caused intermittent service throughout 1918. He returned to Australia on the Kashmir as ships MO.  His AIF appointment was terminated on the 10th June 1919. His records note “Brought to the notice of Secretary of State for War for Valuable Services’. He was issued with the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

He resumed practice at Peterborough on returning to South Australia and purchased a house in Railway Terrace and took a prominent part in the effort which resulted in the erection of the fine Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in that town.  Goode joined Dr Cyril Lowther Clarke, who had returned to Peterborough, from the war a month earlier.   However, active service had seriously affected Goode’s health, and he found it necessary to go to the milder climate of Queensland. He purchased a property at Cleveland in 1926 and established a small farm, however, in later years his chief recreations were gardening and music.  He is reported to have opened the first Hospital in Mount Isa in 1926. Arthur Goode died on the 24th April 1938 in Rosemount Military Hospital, Brisbane. Goode did not marry, but was survived by five brothers and four sisters,

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Nla_mus-an6806487-s1-v with inscription “To Ella with love from Mother, Oct 22nd 1918”

NAA: B2455, Item barcode 4818471.

Family records and photo from David Newgreen and Michael Wilson Photo SLSA, B33019.

The Western Australian, Thursday December 9th 1897.

Chronicle Adelaide 26th May 1938.

Son of Thomas GOODE and Margaret nee WILSON

Practised in Peterborough after the war

Moved to Queensland due to health reasons

Purchased a property at Cleveland in 1926 and established a small farm

Did not marry

Died 24 April 1938 at Rosemount Military Hospital, Brisbane, Qld.

Dr. Arthur Goode, who died in Rosemount military hospital, Brisbane, on April 24, was a son of the late Thomas Goode and the late Margaret Goode, and was born at Canowie Station, of which his father was manager for 35 years. He was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and was a graduate of Adelaide University.

After some years spent at Terowie, Dr. Goode removed to Peterborough and practised there until he enlisted for active service with the A.I.F. in 1915. He was in Egypt for a few months, and then was sent to England as medical officer of a transport, and was then appointed medical officer at Codford, a training camp on Salisbury Plain. This position he retained until he left for France, where he was attached to the hospital at Abbeville. A severe illness next year necessitated his return to England, and on recovery he was appointed as one of the medical officers at Horseferry road, many diggers passing through his hands during the time he was there, which extended until after the Armistice.

Returning to South Australia he resumed practice at Peterborough and took a prominent part in the effort which resulted in the erection of the fine Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in that town. However, active service had seriously affected his health, and he found it necessary to go to the milder climate of Queensland some few years ago, when he purchased a property at Cleveland. In his University days Dr. Goode was a fine runner, and for some years was a prominent player in the South Adelaide Football Club. In late years his chief recreations were gardening and music. Dr. Goode did not marry, but is survived, by five brothers: — A. P., of Port Pirie; Clarence. Henley Beach; Cecil H., Wayville: T. M. and M. C. of Queensland; and four sisters, Mrs. N. A. Smith, Henley Beach; Mrs. F. Green, Brisbane; Mrs. R. K. Jenkins, Wirraminna station, and Mrs. W. F. Simmons, Bexley, N.S.W. The late Mrs. Crawford Vaughan was also a sister.