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Died: 14th October 1917. Died of Wounds Passchendaele, Belgium.

Mother: Ann Elizabeth Goble. nee:.

Norman Francis Goble enlisted with the Australian Medical Corps on the 18th of August 1914 and was attatched to the 8th Infanrty Battalion AIF with the rank of Corporal and left Melbourne on board HMAT A24 "Benalla" on the 19th of October 1914. He was later transfered to the 33rd Battalion. Norman was from Richmond, Victoria upon enlistment. Norman was Mortally Wounded in Action during the battle of Passchendaele on the 12th of October 1917 and Died of Wounds on the 14th of October.

Norman is remembered with honour and is commemerated in perpetuity by the Commonweath War Graves Commission at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium.

As for the Australians, of the two battalions that Monash had now ordered to participate, the 39th had already to a large extent been involved in the fighting, and the 33rd, endevouring to reach its position of readiness for outflanking Passchendaele, had suffered great loss. No less than 6 of its Officers were killed or mortally wounded. Captain Wilfred Frank Hinton, in command of the forward company, Lieutenant: Leonard Rockley BROWNLOW  Lieutenant:Thomas Acheson ARMSTRONG   Lieutenant: Albert George KILPATRICK Lieutenant William REES-REYNOLDS and Lieutenant: Norman Francis GOBLE.

(BEAN; History of World War 1, Vol IV page 921)

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