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Thanks for the response Graham.
The current entry for AR526 at adf-serials.com.au has deleted the reference to Goldsmith and changed other details as well. So your source mentions Goldsmith too? The amended info now reads -

38 MU 11/07/42, VSM 09/09/42 fuel sys mods(Volkes) , 215 MU 27/09/42, ex UK SS Waroonga 13/10/42.Delivered 25/12/42 to 1 AD. Still being erected on 28/12/42. To 7 RSU ex 1AD 19/01/43. To 457 Sqn RAAF ex 7RSU 24/02/43. To 7 RSU 13/04/43. to 457 Sqn 19/04/43 Coded "ZP-V". Operational loss as Blue 1, during a 8 aircraft interception of 8 Enemy Bombers and 5 Zekes at 22000 feet over Milingimbi Island NT 1335hrs 28/05/43. Pilot; F/O Alfred "Harry" Henry Blake Serv#400458, belived shot down at sea and missing. AMSE Approval W/O per File#9/16/865 08/07/43.

The same site does indeed say BR525 arrived in Australia on the SS Hoperidge on 23/10/42, so that supports your source. Thanks for the info on BR526. I suspect wherever I saw the Goldsmith a/c referred to as BR526 that it was either a typo or in error. Maybe the entry made in the record for AR526 was similarly an error. AR526 and BR525 are both recorded as having been coded "J", and if someone erroneously recorded BR525 as BR526, there may have been some further resulting confusion there.
Thanks
Peter