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Lt. Thomas Ernest Godwin
Royal Flying Corps 57 Squadron
from:Acton, London
(d.21st August 1917)
Thomas Godwin born on the 10th April 1890 to James Thomas and Hannah Augusta Goodwin of 20 King Street Mews, Portman Square, London. His father was a coachman. The 1911 census shows Thomas living in 21 Brougham Road, Acton with his mother and siblings, employed as a boy clerk at the Admiralty. He enlisted in 1915 at Kamloops, British Columbia with the Royal Flying Corps and was commissioned in 1916.
He was serving with 57 Squadron and on 21th August 1917 took off in a De Havilland DH4 (serial no. A7555) as the Observer, his Pilot was Lieutenant W. B. Hutcheson. They engaged in a fight with the enemy (believed to be Lieutenant Hanko of Jasta 28) at Hooge, Belgium when they received a direct hit. Lieutenant Hutcheson survived and was captured, Thomas was killed, aged 28 years. He is buried at Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium and is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Lt.Col. Charles Edward Goff MC.
British Army 1st Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment
from:Ballybrack, Co. Dublin
(d.8th Aug 1916)
Charles Goff was the youngest son of the late John Crosbie Goff. He was killed at Guillemont, France on the 8th of August 1916.
Cpl. Charles Thomas Goff
British Army 47th Divisional Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery
from:Barnes
(d.14th March 1919)
Pte. Charles Thomas Goforth
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Beverley, East Yorks
(d.28th Mar 1918)
My grandmother was Charles Goforth's younger sister and she never got over losing "Tommy" and she always wanted to visit his grave. He has, like so many of that conflict no known grave and I am going to visit the area shortly and pay my respects at the Arras memorial.
I have detailed maps of the places where the battalion fought during the 1918 German offensive and I hope to try and re trace the steps he and his comrades took all those years ago.
Pte. Christopher Gogarty
British Army Machine Gun Guards
from:Brannockstown, County Meath, Ireland
(d.30th March 1918)
Christopher Gogarty was the son of William Gogarty and Jane Gogarty (nee Gorey) of Brannockstown, County Meath, Ireland. He was born in December 1891 and worked as a farm labourer and a was member of the Boardsmill Irish National Volunteers. He heeded John Redmond's call to join the British Army and, in January 1915, joined the Irish Guards as Private 6551. He trained at Caterham (not Warley)and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, arriving in France 16 August 1915. He fought at the Battle of Loos and was wounded on the 27 September 1915.
After spending nearly a year at home recuperating from his wounds, he returned to the 2nd Battalion in France and continued to see action on the Somme, Ypres, Cambrai and around the Arras Sector. He transferred to the 4th Foot Guards Machine Gun Battalion (the Machine Gun Guards) in February 1918 and was given the service number 1878. Wounded in action during the German Spring Offensive he was evacuated to Doullens for medical treatment but succumbed to his wounds on the 30th March 1918. Christopher is buried in the Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1, grave reference: VI. F. 8. He is remembered with honour.
Pte Joseph Goggins
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Wexford
My paternal grandfather Pte Joseph Goggins enlisted in the 5th Btn Royal Irish Fusiliers and was posted to the 7th.
L/Cpl. Peter Goggins
British Army 19th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.18th Jan 1917)
Peter Goggind served with the Durham Light Infantry 19th Battalion He was executed for quitting his post on18th January1917 and is buried in St. Pol Communal Cemetery Extension, St. Pol-sur-Ternoise, France.
Despite following the orders to retreat of an NCO who shouted, "Run for your lives, the Huns are on top of you!", Sgt Peter Goggins was shot for deserting his post. The 22-year-old soldier, who had married six months before his death in January 1917, was commanding a unit of six soldiers in the front line, when a sergeant came running back from a reconnaissance mission yelling at them to withdraw. Sgt Goggins scrambled out of his dugout and fell back to a reserve trench 20 yards away - but it turned out to be a false alarm. Even though the sergeant confirmed that he had given the orders to retreat, Goggins was court martialled on Christmas Eve and executed a week later. His 19-year-old wife Margaret disappeared when she heard the news and his mother had a nervous breakdown.
Peter was one of seven soldiers guarding their positions in the early hours of 26th of November 1916. Most of his fellow soldiers from 19th Durham Light Infantry had been taken off the frontline after rumours the Germans were about to launch a gas attack. As the guns fell silent, a sergeant and captain ventured into No Man's Land for a reccee -- but they were ambushed. It was shortly after 2.30am when the sergeant managed to stagger back, shouting: "Run for your lives, the Huns are on top of you!" Peter, himself a young sergeant, scrambled out of the dugout, withdrawing to a reserve trench 20 yards away - but it turned out to be a false alarm.
With the six others, he faced charges of deserting his post, and was court-martialled on Christmas Eve. Even though the sergeant confirmed he had given the orders to retreat, Peter was executed a week later along with two others. Another soldier wrote a moving account of the execution: "A piercingly cold dawn' a crowd of brass hats, the medical officer and three firing parties. A motor ambulance arrives carrying the doomed men. Manacled and blindfolded, they are tied up to the stakes. Over each man's heart is placed an envelope. At the sign, the firing parties, 12 for each, align rifles on the envelopes. The officer holds his stick aloft and, as it falls, 36 bullets usher the souls of Kitchener's men to the great unknown."
Peter's niece Marina Brewis, 74, of Stanley, Co Durham, said: "I read the reports of my uncle's court martial and it is obvious that he was shot simply as an example to others. An apology from the Government isn't enough, I want a piece of paper pardoning my uncle. I won't rest until I get it."
Dedicated to Peter Goggins, by Katie Hopley (16)
- How can you kill someone
- For being afraid?
- That is disgusting!
- You should be ashamed
- As members are shot
- Families back home are torn apart
- They’re all branded
- Where’s the heart?
- not killed by the enemy
- They now lose their name
- Branded as cowards
- Their families the same!
- Over 300 men
- They all need to die?
- A thirst for blood
- That’s why!
- So end this injustice!
- Give them all back their name
- Only then will you end
- Our country's 84 year shame
Sjt. Albert Henry Gold
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.17th Apr 1915)
Pte. Frederick Thomas Gold
British Army 2nd Btn. London Regiment
from:Bermondsey, London
(d.27th Aug 1918)
Frederick Gold is buried in Summit Trench Cemetery, Croisilles in France.
L/Cpl. Thomas Cuthbertson Gold
British Army 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
(d.15th Oct 1915)
L/Cpl Thomas Cutherbertson Gold was the son of late Thomas C and Jane Gold (Allardice) of 30 Richardland Road, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Born in Kilmarnock on December 1st 1891. England and Wales census 1911 states he was a Boarder and working as an engine fitter. He enlisted in Jarrow. In August 1914, he received an appointment as draughtsman with Messrs Palmer & Co, Shipbuilders, Jarrow.
Thomas died aged 24 on 15th October 1915 and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Panel.
Pte. Edward Goldborough
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Elswick
Lt. W. Golder
Army 13th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Solomon Goldfish
British Army 2nd Btn. Manchester Regiment
Pnr. Ernest Jessie Goldie
British Army 5th Battalion Special Brigade Royal Engineers
from:Glasgow
(d.9th October 1916)
Ernest Goldie is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. He was aged 18 years and 7 months at the time of his death. He was originally in the Highland Light Infantry and was transferred into the Royal Engineers Special Brigade. Having returned with his family from Canada in 1915, he was by trade a plumber when he enlisted. He may have died during the Canadian offensive to take Regina Trench near Courcelette and Le Sars. He died 3 weeks before the end of the Battle of the Somme on 18th of November 1916.
Pte. John William Goldie
British Army 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards
from:Jurby, Isle of Man
(d.7th Sept 1917)
Pte. Robert Goldie
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Hurlford, Crookedholm
(d.19th Jan 1915)
My Great Uncle Robert Goldie, was born in Liverpool in 1887, due to the fact that his father was playing profesional Football for Everton F.C. after having been transferred from Celtic F.C. about a year earlier. On moving back home to Scotland in 1898 due to his father being transferred to Dundee and then Morton the family eventually settled in their home town of Hurlford/Crookedholm which, like to day, is a suburb of Kilmarnock. Robert, like most young boys, took part in many organisations including the Boys Brigade and football with the local team, Hurlford. In his early teens he was an apprentice at Glenfield and Kennedy (water valve makers) as well as playing occasionally for Kilmarnock F.C. as a reserve player.
When war broke out he pestered his parents to such an extent that they eventually gave in and allowed him to join up. He was only 17 yrs old and like most young man who were eager to join up lied about his age stating he was 21 yrs. He joined the 8th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders in September and was transferred to Aldershot for training. It was during this time that he sustained a bayonet wound which eventually led to septicemia and pneumonia. He succummed to his injuries on the 19th January 1915.
He was given a full military funeral on his return home with the whole of the populations of Hurlfiord, Crookedholm and most of Kilmarnock attending.
Letter of Condolence to my Great Grandparents on the death of their son Robert.
He is buried in a quiet corner of Kimarnock Cemetery along with his grandparents. He was fortunate he did not befall to the horrors that were about to be unleashed on his Battalion later that year.
Pte. Robert Goldie
British Army 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
from:Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Scotland
(d.19th Jan 1915)
Robert Goldie was the 2nd oldest son of Hugh and Grace Goldie.He was born in Liverpool, England as his father Hugh( my great grandfather)was a professional footballer at Everton FC at the time. Hugh was later transferred to Celtic FC and as a result the family moved back home to Hurlford near Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Young Robert was a member of the local BB in Hurlford and was a budding footballer and was playing reserve team football with Kilmarnock FC at the age of 17yrs when WW1 broke out. Robert, who was also an apprentice engineer at a local factory in Kilmarnock pestered his parents over several weeks in an attempt to allow him to join up, despite being only 17yrs. They eventually relented and he joined the 8th battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders in October of 1914. In November he was transferred to Aldershot, England for further training. It was at this point during Bayonet training that he was injured and sustained a very serious stab wound which turned poisonous and on the 19th Jan 1915, Robert died of blood poisoning in the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. He was just 17yrs of age and the first casualty of the War in the Town Robert was brought home to his family and given a full military funeral with pipes and drums as well as a Full Military Escort to the Kilmarnock Cemetery which was 3 miles from his home. The whole route was lined several persons deep. His name is now engraved on the local War Memorial in Hurlford.
Pte. Robert Millican Goldie
British Army 21st Battalion (2nd Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
We udnerstand that Private Goldie was captured by the Germans and became a POW
Pte. Alfred Charles Golding
British Army
Alfred Golding was captured at Monchy, France on 3rd of May 1917 and interred at Parchim POW Camp.
L/Cpl. George Golding
British Army
from:23 IDawes Street, Gillingham, Kent
George Golding went to Salonika in October/November 1916 after leaving the port of New Haven. He suffered twice from malaria and subsequently had reactions from this for the rest of his life, although he was pronounced 100% fit while serving in Salonika. George departed for England in 1919.
George was in Salonika for over two years. There was no leave to return in all that time, considering he was newly married just before he embarked for the long war service in Salonika.
Pte. George Thomas Golding
British Army 1/4th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Barking
(d.2nd November 1917)
George Golding was in the 3rd Battle of Gaza. He is remembered in the Deir El Belah War Cemetery
Pte. Henry Golding
British Army 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Earls Barton
(d.14th April 1918)
Henry Golding of the 10th Sherwood Foresters is buried at Etaples in France.
Pte. James Golding
British Army 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Yeomanry)
(d.2nd November 1918)
James Golding is buried in the Birr Military Cemetery in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
Pte. Robert William Golding
British Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland, County Durham
(d.3rd May 1917)
My great uncle Robert Golding was serving with the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry when on 3rd May 1917 while advancing on the Hindenburg Line, Somme, Northern France, he was killed in action.
Sgt. William Taverner Golding
British Army 88th Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Acton, London
(d.21st October 1914)
William Golding was born in Acton on the 11 April 1891, Son of Henry Miles and Sophia Golding. His father was a park keeper, he had four sisters and a brother and studied at Priory Boys School.
He initially enlisted in London and served with the 69th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, in Rajputana, India prior to the start of the War. He was later promoted to Sergeant and transferred to the 88th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, service no. 48216. He was killed in action on the 21st October 1914 aged 23 years during the first Battle of Ypres and is buried in Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, near Armentieres, Northern France. He is remembered on both the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London and The War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Slough. He is also inscribed on his parents headstone, St Mary's Churchyard, Slough.
Courtesy of www.stmaryacton.org.uk, buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk and www.cwgc.org
A. L.Y. Goldney
British Army 6th London Coy. Machine Gun Corps
My grandfather A L Y Goldney joined the 6th London Machine Gun Corps in 1915 thats all I know, he survived the war and went on to serve in Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Pte. Arthur Goldsbrough
British Army 23rd Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th DLI and 2-6th DLI
Sgt. Harold Goldsbrough
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Harry Hildreth Goldsbrough
British Army
Drvr. Charles Goldsmith
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Brighton
My maternal grandfather, Charlie Goldsmith, enlisted in the Army Service Corps on the 19th of June 1914. His regimental number was 372. His Army number was T4/239401. His rank was Driver. He came from Brighton.
I believe he was in 662 Unit because there is a faded note to that effect on his service record. He was posted to Salonica on the 3rd Jan 1917 as reinforcement. Prior to that he might have trained in Canterbury. His army also record mentioned 81st TA or JA and theatre of War or command as Russia.
I have 3 pictures of him one one a horse, one tending a horse and a third one with a group of men outside a shelter. My Grandfather is holding a baby owl in his hand and a man behind him seems to have a fully grown owl on his arm. Seems to been in a hot climate maybe Greece. Who took this photo?
As you can see there are massive gaps. If anyone has any information or clues please contact me.
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