Moody, George Frederick
:SURNAME
Moody
NAME
George Frederick
PLACE OF BIRTH
London, UK
OCCUPATION
Carter
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Cairns, Qld
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
22/04/1916
NEXT OF KIN
Mrs Emma Moody, (wife) Mossman, via Port Douglas, Qld
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Employed, address Mossman
REGIMENT 1
Machine Gun
RANK
Private
CAMPAIGN 1
Western Front
DATE DISCHARGED
19/03/1919
OTHER INFORMATION
5th Machine Gun Battalion, Machine Gun Company 11, Reinforcement 4; embarked on HMAT Port LIncoln 20-10- 16.
Awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal.
STORY OUTLINE
George Moody, a carter, enlisted in Cairns on 22/04/16, though his address was in Mossman. He left Australia on 20/10/16, trained in England, and went to France on 7/09/17.
Wounded in action on 29/09/18, he was in hospital before returning to Australia on 20/12/18, and was discharged "invalid" on 19/03/19. He died in a State Hospital and Home in Lidcombe in 1950, and the Victory Medal in his possession was sent to his daughter, Mrs Hart, of Cairns, in 1952.
SERVICE NO
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