Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

07/11/1914

Date of Discharge

05/02/1917

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Walworth, London, England

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Booking clerk

Next of Kin

Son of Arthur and Sarah Noad of Chiswick, England

Burial Place

Middlesex 46 Chiswick Cemetery, England

Service Number

1306

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

2 Battalion AIF

Died of wounds 20 July 1917 at Chiswick, England, aged 29 years.

Noad was employed as a steward at the Royal Military College, Duntroon between 26 September 1914 and 2 November 1914 when he left to enlist. He had previously spent four years in the Royal Engineers. Noad embarked from Sydney in February 1915 with the 2nd reinforcements to the 2nd Battalion and landed on Gallipoli on 7 May 1915. The following day he was shot in the spine and sent to hospital in Alexandria, Egypt where he was diagnosed with "complete paralysis".

He was then sent to England for treatment. The Sydney Mail shows a photo of Noad in a hospital bed "with whom Mr Hughes spent a long time on the occasion of his visit to Harefield Hospital last week. The Australian Prime Minister saw Corporal Noad, who was shot in the spine and is paralysed, being electrically treated, smiling cheerfully while the battery was applied. Mr Hughes said: 'You are a brave fellow. I hope to meet you in Sydney." 

Despite his only family living in England, Noad was sent back to Australia and spent from June to November 1916 in hospital at Randwick. He was then allowed to return to England to his parents' home in Chiswick where he died at on 20 July 1917. Noad's name is included on the AWM Roll of Honour despite apparently being discharged from the Army before his death.

Description - height 5 feet 6½ inches, weight 146 pounds, chest 35-39 inches, fair complexion, light blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000.
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Sydney Mail - 18 August 1915, 27 September 1916