We are looking for living relatives of the following soldier - quite a lot of family details about this chap. We also need to combine the family tree to do DNA testing if it proves viable. Any help is most welcome.
NAME Goulding, John Joseph
SN 555
RANK Private
UNIT 31 Bn
HONOUR Standard entitlements
BORN Holbeach Lincolnshire England
OCCUPATION Labourer
RELIGION Anglican
DOE 30.08.1915 Tweed Heads Brisbane Qld
AGE 32
STATUS KIA
DATE 19.07.1916
AGE 34
BURIED Unknown
MEMORIAL Villers Brettoneaux
AWM 118
DESCRIPTION 5' 6 with brown hair
NOTES Arrived in Australia aged 6
Enlisted to go to South Africa in Brisbane but did not go to camp as no more men
were required to go out of Australia. Date not known.
One cousin served AIF
Red Cross card: Sgt Maj Tate. Pte Goulding was wounded and dropped between the
German 2nd and 3rd trench. I did not see him after. He came over with us. I was his
platoon sergeant.
Personal effects of purse and coins received from German authorities
NOK Father: William Marshall Goulding
623 Brunswick Street New Farm Qld
Mother: Julia Alice Goulding she died Diamentina Hospital Brisbane 19.07.1922
(nee Fenn or Harris)
Sister: Alice Goulding died Qld 06.06.1912 Reg No B015924
Brother: William Marshall Goulding he married Qld 1923 Jean Gillies 03.05.1913
Reg No B 012985 Motor Car Proprietor Murwillumbah NSW 1923
marriage for father or son: Ethel Griffin 1955 Murwillumbah Reg 13127
death for father or son: 1959 Murwillumbah Reg No 22378
Son: Arthur George Goulding died Tweed Heads 1971 Reg No 47746
Brother: Thomas Harold Goulding
Dean Brae' Ferndale Street Ipswich Road Annerley Brisbane Qld
Brother: Walter Goulding born 20.09.1889 Qld Reg No 006833
Tweed Heads NSW he possibly died NSW 1974 Reg No 47507
Sister: Catherine Ellen Kelly
East End Mt Larcom Qld
Brother: Arthur George Goulding
c/- J B Chandler & Co Elizabeth Street Brisbane Qld