GOODALL, Gladstone Wilfred
| Service Numbers: | 10256, 10258 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, 5 August 1880 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 October 1943, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Coburg Moreland State School No 2837 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 10256, 10th Field Company Engineers | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 10256, 10th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 10256, 10th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 13 Feb 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 10256, 10th Field Company Engineers, per HT Ulysses for Melbourne, Victoria | |
| 6 Jun 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 10258, 10th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gladstone was the ninth of thirteen children of William Gooadall (born 1846 at Evandale in Tasmania) and Julia Elizabeth Walker (born 1842 in Kent, England). William went to Warnambool with his family as a child, and for three years was a Teacher there. He married Julia at Warnambool in 1867 and joined the Civil Service. William was Manager of the Aboriginal Reserves at Framlingham and Coranderrk, where their children were born and raised. William and Julia moved to Melbourne in 1889, where William continued as a Civil Servant with the Neglected Children's Department.
Gladstone started work at Briagolong in Gippsland, Victoria as a Labourer. Two of his brothers - Edward and Christian (Gillie) went to work in the goldfields at Kalgoorlie in WA. In 1904 Gladstone married Esther Ethel Dyall (born 1875 in Collingwood, Victoria) and together they ran a Grocery Store at Brunswick until Esther's death in 1915.
Gladstone enlisted in the AIF in January 1916 and served as a Sapper (Service No: 10256) with 10th Field Coy Engineers in France. He married Margery Amy Strong (born 1894 in Devon, England) in January 1917 at St John Weymouth in Dorset, In February that year, Gladstone returned to Australia (Medical Discharge), and Margery followed in April that year.
On his return to Victoria, Gladstone purchased forty acres at Cockatoo Creek, where Margery lived while he Managed a Butter Factory. In 1918 he received a land grant under the Discharged Soldiers' Act of 1916, and became a Dairy Farmer at Narre Warren in Berwick, Flinders, Victoria. He and Margery farmed there until 1937, when they moved to Mordialloc where Gladstone was an Engineer. By 1937 they had returned to Melbourne, and Gladstone worked as a Stevedore (Wharfie) until his death in 1943. Margery remarried, and died in 1966.