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AWM Photograph Darge DA 12256
Pte Samuel W Newton In the middle of this group portrait.
George Henry Noble (Regimental No 2386)
George Henry Noble was born at Cardiff England. He was a miner who
enlisted on 11th September 1915 and embarked on 2nd May 1916. He
listed his wife Nydia as his next of kin through the war when he married
Nydia Buck, the daughter of Zachariah Buck, a dock labourer in England.
The changed marital situation was acknowledged by the Australian
Military Command. He married Nydia on 10th April 1917.
George had embarked from Sydney on 2nd May 1916. He had indicated
that the Post Office Redhead was his address and we know from his
enlistment papers that prior to his new wife his father John Noble of the
Keepers Cottage Dibden, Hythe, England was his recognised next of kin
and that he had been born in Cardiff England. He joined the 20
th
Battalion, 7
th
–12
th
Reinforcement as a Private, at the time he was 23 years
old. His service was plagued by numerous injuries and medical
conditions including ingrown toenails, fever, influenza that restricted his
service. In fact George spent the entire war period in Britain either ill, or
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