BORN HULL 1880. SON OF JOHN JAMES & MARY ELIZABETH GOODWILL AT THIS ADDRESS. A CARPENTER. EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. ARRIVED IN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, ON 12/11/1912. HE LIVED WITH A MISS M E DODDS. ENLISTED AT BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, ON 21/12/1915, GIVING THE AGE OF 32. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 3 INCHES TALL, 108 LBS WEIGHT, 32 INCH CHEST, GREY EYES AND DARK HAIR. EMBARKED FOR ALEXANDRIA, ON 06/06/1916. ARRIVED IN PLYMOUTH, AND THEN IN ETAPLES, ON 25/07/1916. HE ARRIVED AT THE FRONT ON 20/08/1916. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/09/1916, AGED 35. COMMEMORATED ON THE VILLERS BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY PENSION WAS LEFT TO HIS FATHER, JOHN, AT THIS HULL ADDRESS. HE ALSO LEFT BROTHER ALFRED AND SISTER GRACE.
Photograph of Walter Goodwill wearing a straw boater. Goodwill spent time in Fiji, and was killed in action in the Somme area of France in 1916. He served as a private with the 49th Battalion of the Australian Infantry.
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