Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

10/04/1916

Date of Discharge

11/12/1919

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Known as 'Ted'

Date of Birth

20/03/1889

Place of Birth

Tidbinbilla ACT

Address (at enlistment)

32 Harbour Street, Mosman NSW (previously Tidbinbilla ACT)

School(s) Attended

Tharwa Public School, Church Rock Valley School (Tidbinbilla), St. Patrick's College (Goulburn)

Occupation

Journalist

Next of Kin

John Noone (father), 32 Harbour Street, Mosman NSW

Service Number

16221

Final Rank

Lance Corporal

Final Unit

15 Field Company Engineers AIF

Ted Noone was one of three brothers, originally from Tidbinbilla, who served in the war. After completing his schooling at St. Patrick's in Goulburn he became a teacher at Forbes and Newcastle and then moved to Sydney to pursue a career as a journalist with The Catholic Weekly. Noone also worked as a staff reporter with the Daily Telegraph and, at the time he enlisted in April 1916, he was Sporting Editor at the Daily Telegraph. He served with the 15th Field Company Engineers in France and Belgium from April 1917 (at Bullecourt, Polygon Wood and Villers-Bretonneux) and was appointed as a Lance Corporal in March 1918. Noone received a gun shot wound to the shoulder and chest on 29 August 1918 near Peronne. He returned to Australia in August 1919 and was discharged on 11 December 1919. After the war he purchased 'London Bridge' near Burra with his brothers Hubert and Jim but they sold it in 1928. He married Rose Marlan and purchased 'Fairfield' near Inverell where they raised four children. After the death of his wife Noone retired to a small farm near Tingha where he died on 9 August 1980 aged 91.

Description - height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 135 pounds, chest 31½-36 inches, dark complexion, bluish grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Information and image provided by Michael Noone