Godfrey Goldin
Personal information
Full name Godfrey Robert Goldin
Date of birth (1919-06-10)10 June 1919
Place of birth Abbotsford, Victoria
Date of death 7 February 1943(1943-02-07) (aged 23)
Place of death Territory of New Guinea
Original team(s) Coburg Amateurs
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1939 Essendon 8 (6)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1939.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Godfrey Robert Goldin (10 June 1919 – 7 February 1943) was a champion schoolboy Australian rules footballer who also played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

He died of wounds sustained in action while serving with the Second AIF in New Guinea during World War II.

Family

The son of Robert Vane Goldin (1886-1969),[2][3] and Ellen Christina Goldin (1890-1973), née Graham, Godfrey Robert Goldin was born on 10 June 1919.

He was engaged to Grace Lillian Osborne in September 1942.[4] They never married.[5]

His younger brother, Allan "Dick" Goldin, played 104 games in six seasons (1947 to 1952) for the Preston Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[6][7] He later coached Preston Seconds.[8]

Football

East Coburg State School

He was a champion schoolboy footballer, he played for the East Coburg State School team (coached by Jack Baggott,[9] and represented Victoria in the 1933 Inter-State Schoolboys' Australian Rules Carnival in Brisbane.[10]

Coburg Amateurs Football Club (VAFA)

He played for the Coburg Amateurs team that won the D Grade premiership in 1936.

Essendon (VFL)

Recruited by Essendon in 1937, he played a season with Essendon's Second XVIII before making his debut against North Melbourne on 27 May 1939.[11]

With his early preseason training restricted by illness and injury,[12] Goldin played several games with the Second XVIII in 1940.

Cricket

He played for Preston Cricket Club in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.[13]

Military service

He enlisted in the Second AIF on 11 March 1941.

Death

Having served in the North Africa, he died in New Guinea on 7 February 1943 of wounds he had sustained fighting against the Japanese in the Battle of Wau.[14][15]

He was buried at the Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery.

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