Thomas Seymour Godsell

Service number: 1401, then 1867

Rank: Private

Unit: 3rd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Thomas Godsell was born in Birmingham, England in c1879, son of Thomas Godsell. He was a tool-maker to trade.

He enlisted on 18 November 1914 under the false name of Thomas Seymour.

He embarked on the Shropshireon 17 March 1915.

He was wounded at Gallipoli, losing his right thumb, and sent to hospital at Malta in August 1915.

While he was in hospital in England his real name emerged and he was issued with service number 1867 under the name of Thomas Godsell, with next of kin his wife Flora Godsell of Eustace Street, Manly.

He was returned to Australia on the Themistocles on 8 May 1916.