| Regimental number | 1839 |
| Place of birth | Lismore, New South Wales |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Farmer |
| Address | Georgica via Lismore, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 22 |
| Height | 5' 7.25" |
| Weight | 133 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, William Goulding, Georgica via Lismore, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Lismore, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 42nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/59/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A42 Boorara on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 42nd Battalion |
| Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Distinguished Conduct Medal Conspicuous courage and determination on 10 June 1917 at Schnitzel Farm. Recommendation date: |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 23 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 135 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: William and Mary GOULDING, Baillie Street, North Lismore, New South Wales. Native of Lismore |
| Medals |
Distinguished Conduct Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst acting as a company runner. Four times he successfully carried messages through a heavy barrage from an isolated portion of the line, a distance of half a mile, on the last occasion returning exhausted and shaken by an explosion. In spite of this, he volunteered to take another message, and through his wonderful courage and determination his battalion was able to deal successfully with a difficult situation.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 219 Date: |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Brisbane, 16 August 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 13 October 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 21 November 1916. Admitted to 10th Australian Field Ambulance, 9 April 1917 (influenza); transferred to Divisional Rest Camp, 22 April 1917; rejoined unit, 25 April 1917. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, 25 August 1917. On furlough, 4 September 1917; rejoined unit from furlough, 15 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 4 September 1917. Buried at a site approximately ? mile North North-West of Broodseinde, Belgium. Grave subsequently lost. Medals: Distinguished Conduct Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal |