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GODFREY, Albert John

Service Number:	417
Enlisted:	10 February 1916, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Melton, Victoria, 1886
Home Town:	Morawa, Morawa, Western Australia
Schooling:	No. 1 State School, Alberton, Gippsland, Victoria
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Accidental (Injuries), France, 22 February 1917
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery Plot XXI, Row H, Grave 6 Headstone Inscription "TIME CHANGES MANY THINGS BUT MEMORY LIKE THE IVY CLINGS", Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geraldton District Great War Honour Roll, Mingenew Honour Roll, Mingenew Upper Irwin Roads Board District Roll of Honor WW1, Mingenew War Memorial, Morawa War Memorial, Western Australia State War Memorial

World War 1 Service

10 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 417, Mining Corps, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
6 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 417, Mining Corps, Embarked on HMAT 'A38' Ulysses from Fremantle on 1st April 1916, disembarking Marseilles, France on 5th May 1916 and detrained at Hazebrouck on 8th MAy 1916.
8 Apr 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sapper, Mining Corps
24 Dec 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
20 Feb 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 417, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Admitted to 26th General Hospital, Etaples with self inflicted wound to cheek on 20th February 1917, succumbed to wounds on 22nd February 1917. Court of Inquiry findings that injury inflicted whilst of unsound state of mind.
22 Feb 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 417, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 417 awm_unit: 1st Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-02-22

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Horatio Nelson and Fanny Jane GODFREY of Morowa, Western Australia. Native of Melton, Victoria.