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Gnr. Jim Gorst
British Army 171 Howitzer Royal Field Artillery
from:Fleetwood, Lancashire
Gnl. John Gort VC, MC, MID.
British Army Grenadier Guards
During the First World War General John Gort was Mentioned in Dispatches nine times and won the Military Cross. On 27th September 1918, Gort won the Victoria Cross at Canal du Nord.
Pte. William Thomas Gorton
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Acton, London
(d.1st December 1916)
William Gorton born about 1880 was the son of Henry and Bessie Gorton. The 1911 census shows him living with his widowed father (his mother had died prior to 1901), his sister Edith and aunt Mary Egleton at 6 East Row The Steyne, Acton; He is a general labourer. He married Eleanor F Gorton and remained living in Acton, London.
He served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and died on the 1st of December 1916 whilst a Prisoner of War in German Hands. He is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany and is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
L/Cpl. Thomas Henry Hermon Gosden
British Army 16th Battalion (Sussex Yeomanry) Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Hailsham East Sussex
Before he entered the Battle of the Somme, he was in Palestine in 1917. His eldest son followed in his footsteps in 1947 to the same place. My grandad was a runner for the 16th Battalion in WW1 and was wounded 3 times including the last time on 18th September 1918 when he was discharged.
Pte. Edward Roy Gosling
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Sidmouth, Devon
My Grandad, Roy" Gosling fought at Passchendale and was wounded during an horrific attack on a ridge S.E of Ypres on 10th of August 1917. The right flank was exposed as their supporting regiment on the right were a couple of hundred yards behind and the Germans were spread out in front and down the right side giving them easy undefended access to machine gun everyone down. The war diary of this event is awful and virtually all officers and NCOs were killed or wounded and hundreds of the 11th Battalion lost in that one charge.
Luckily my Grandad was wounded and recovered and ended up back in Kent eventually. I often think if that bullet in his left arm had been a few inches further right I, and my children, wouldn't exist. He lived a long life back in Sidmouth but never talked about his time in France.
Pte. T. Gosney
British Army 2nd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
(d.26th July 1916)
Private Gosney died on 26th July 1916 and is buried in the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq.
Gnr. Arthur Thomas Goss
British Army 136th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Deptford, London
(d.21st Jun 1918)
Pte. James Goss
British Army 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Bridgend, South Wales
(d.1st December 1917)
James Goss was a Royal Navy Seaman, who left the Royal Navy after marring his sweetheart, Jessie Gillard on 4th November 1911. They lived at the Malt House in Pen Y Fai and had two boys. He worked as a collier at Coytrahen Colliery, Tondu, prior to joining the Glamorgan Yeomanry.
In 1916, the Pembroke Yeomanry and the Glamorgan Yeomanry embarked for foreign service for the first time in their history. They spent the next 12 months in Egypt, taking part in the historic offensive into Palestine, leading to the liberation of the Holy City of Jerusalem.
James Goss was killed, along with 14 other men from his Regiment, on 1st December 1917, just 8 days before the Ottoman surrendered and Jerusalem was liberated. The are all buried at Jerusalem War Cemetery.
Pte N H Goss
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Chapel St, Settle, Yorks
(d.5th Jul 1917)
Goss, N, H. Private, 33551, Killed in action on 5th July 1917. 19th Btn N.F.Records show his name as just H.Goss.
Buried in Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, in grave II. F. 3.
Husband of E. M. Goss, of Chapel St, Settle, Yorks.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Lt. Ernest Marson Gosse MC & Bar
British Army 52 Company Army Service Corps
from:London, Brighton
My paternal grandfather, Ernest Marson Gosse, enlisted in London on 9th August 1914, aged 24.
He chose to join the 'Mechanical Specials'of the Army Service Corps as Private MS/2315, 52 Company ASC (the Caterpillar section). He became a sergeant sometime in 1915 and was commissioned later that year as a Second Lieutenant.
He appears to have spent most of his time from 16th June 1916 to December 1917 on attachment to the 90 Seige Gun Battery Royal Garrison Artillery.
On returning from getting married on 8th January 1918, he returned to France on 14th January posted on attachment to 190 Siege Gun Battery Royal Garrison Artilery, he was also on attachment at some point to the 216 Siege Gun battery RGA.
He was awarded an MC in February 2018, and a bar in September 1918.
My grandfather died in the year of my birth in 1949. We, unfortunately, have scant records of his attachment to the Royal Garrison Artillery an would welcome any information or photos where we may be able to identify him.
I'd be very happy to forward more information and photos to anyone who might be able to provide information.
Maj. Claude Butler Gosset
British Army 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Gatley
(d.15th Feb 1916)
Pte. George Gostridge
British Army 15th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Salford
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. John Willie Gothard
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:5 New Street, Eythorne, Kent
(d.26 Aug 1914)
John Willie Gothard was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire on 13 March 1879, the son of a colliery lamp keeper, Wilfred Gothard. At age 14 he followed his father into the pit as a coal miner hewer. On 2nd March 1903, at the age of 24, he left the pit and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) stationed at Pontefract. He became Private No 7323 in the band. It is understood that he played the Euphonium.
Whilst stationed at Pontefract, he married Martha Fritchley Trout in St Giles Church on 26 December 1906. It was here that their first child, Wilfred, was born on 29 August 1908. John left the Army on 22 September 1909 and returned to coal mining at Hoyland near Barnsley however he retained his Army connections by transferring to the Army Reserve. Two further children were born at Hoyland.
In 1913 John moved the family to Eythorne in Kent where he worked in the newly opened Tilmanstone Colliery. He wasn’t in Eythorne for long because, when war was declared in early August 1914, Private 7323 was mobilised and called back to his Regiment which was then stationed in Dublin.
The Regiment arrived in France on 18 August and immediately headed north-east to meet the advancing German Army at Mons, Belgium. Upon retreating from Mons a stand was made at the small French town of Le Cateau on 26 August. The KOYLI were in the front line and suffered significant losses. John was listed as Missing, Presumed Dead. His remains were never found. He was aged 35 and left behind Martha and three children aged under 6.
He is one of the many who are commemorated in the memorial at Le Ferte-Sous-Jouarre, a small town to the east of Paris.
Martha received John Willie’s medals being the 1914 Star, the British War Medal, the 1914-1919 Victory Medal and The Memorial Plaque. Martha stayed on in Eythorne until 1921 when she packed up her three children and migrated to Australia. She died there on 24 October 1929, aged 45.
Just as an aside, all of John Willie’s brothers went to war and they all survived. The eldest, James, was in the 27th Durham Light Infantry until his discharge on medical grounds on 23rd November 1917. He was described in his discharge as honest and hard working. Like his older brother, the youngest, Wilfred, was in the KOYLI.
John Willie Gothard was my grandfather. Having spent considerable time researching his life, I miss this fine man whom I never knew.
Pte. Thomas Gothard
British Army 1st/4th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment
from:23 John Edward St., Barnsley
(d.13th April 1918)
Thomas Gothard was born in June 1893 in Derbyshire and was the son of Thomas and Ellen Gothard. He had 2 brothers and 4 sisters, one of whom was my grandmother.
Pte. John "Jack" Gott
British Army
from:Willington, Co. Durham
(d.4 October 1917)
Pte. Clarence Augustus Gotts
British Army 11th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Leyton, London
(d.27th Mar 1918)
Clarence Gotts was the son of Augustus James and Emily Louisa Gotts, of 60 Lea Bridge Gardens, Leyton, London. He served with the 11th Bn., East Lancashire Regiment and died on Wednesday, 27th March 1918. Aged 19.
Pte. John Charles Goudie
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.4th Feb 1915)
John Goudie was killed near Zwarteleen and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
Pte. C. Gouge
Australian Imperial Force 43rd Btn.
(d.12th Jun 1917)
Rfmn. Albert Edward Gough
British Army 10th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Birmingham
(d.27th Feb 1917)
Albert Gough served with the 10th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Pte. E. Gough
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ashington
Private George Gough
British Army 14th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:Ferryhill, County Durham
(d.19th Dec 1915)
My grandfather Samuel’s older brother, George Gough became Private 17868, of 14th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in the First World War. George was one of those who died after the gas attack on the trenches on Sunday 19th December 1915, near Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. He is buried in Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave reference V 19.
I had the privilege of visiting the cemetery in August 1998 where I paid my respects to a Great Uncle that, until a few months earlier, I never knew existed. The cemetery is neat and rectangular with a wall surrounding it and an entrance gate. Near the entrance to the graveyard is a small cupboard in the wall. In it is lodged the register of the graves for this particular cemetery. There is also a plan of the graves. I looked at this register. The book was neat and not finger marked or dog-eared. It might have been drawn from a Library shelf and not from a cupboard in a wall in the middle of a village. I think that if this cupboard in this foreign field had been in England, the door would have been wrenched off, the gates nicked and “Skins”, “Col Luvs Sue” or “Man. Utd” sprayed all over the walls. The notion of a register so freely available in England seems nonsense. However for all the dead who lay there and the filthy, futile deaths they died, it was still hard to suppress a twinge of imperial pride and think how brave Great Uncle George had been. I had never known he existed. I can’t remember anyone mentioning his name. There was no photograph and apart from my brother Alan, I don’t think anyone else has visited his grave. It was only through conversation with my brother Alan that I found out about him and War Grave. He had found out about it from my mother when he was about to go on holiday to Holland and Belgium. My mother had never spoken to me about George at all. I don’t know why because as the story further unfolded my grandfather had been the last of the family to see him alive. He had gone down to Ferryhill Railway Station to wave goodbye to him. Also by a strange twist of fate George’s Sergeant on that fateful day, eventually turned out to be my dad’s sister Lily’s husband Joe Handy’s, Aunt Elizabeth (Bessie) Handy’s father Edward(Ted) Handy, if that makes any sense. When my dad was courting my mother they were visiting the Handys and Ted asked my mother if she was any relation to George Gough. When she said yes the story came out of the gas attack. The soldiers being ordered to put on their gas masks. These were very primitive affairs and had not really been tried and tested. When some of the younger soldiers began to scream that theirs were not working, George, being much older at 35 years, apparently exchanged his mask with a teenage soldier, who was in trouble. Presumably this exchanged mask did not work as he died of gas poisoning. This is the story that Ted Handy told my mother. It made me feel very proud to stand in front of the gravestone and pay my respects that day.
Pte. George Gough
British Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.19th Dec 1915)
My Great Uncle, George Gough, Private 17868 was one of those who died after the gas attack on the trenches, near Wieltje on Sunday, 19th December 1915, near Ypres, Belgium. Casualties amongst the ranks amounted to 149 with a number of officers also being gassed and wounded.
Pte. George Gough
British Army 14th Btn Durham Light Infantry
(d.19th Dec 1915)
My Great Uncle George Gough served with the 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and was one of those who died after the gas attack on the trenches, on Sunday, 19th December 1915, near Ypres.
Sgt. Herbert Edwin Gough
British Army Wiltshire Regiment
from:Calne, Wiltshire
My late husband, Herbert Gough, was working in London when World War 1 broke out. He was 15 years old but put his age up to 18 years and joined the Wiltshire regiment. He fought at the Battle of the Somme he later was a Sergeant in the Military Police. He was one of only two survivors out of 17 young men who joined from his village.
2nd Lt. Horace Fredrick Gough DSO.
British Army 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
(d.21st Sept 1917)
Horace Gough was a Lance Corporal in the 11th Hussars and a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion of The North Staffordshire Regiment. He received the DSO. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He rallied part of a neighbouring battalion that had lost all of its officers and had been forced back from a most important position He personally led a counter attack, and re-took the position at the point of the bayonet, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. He then consolidated the captured position and remained in command until relieved. By his gallantry, individuality and resource he undoubtedly enabled the troops on his flank to regain a highly important position.
Gnr. J. Gough
British Army 173 Brigade, AĂ‚Â Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.15th October 1918)
Gunner Gough is buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium, Grave III.D.3.
Bmbdr. James Gough MM.
British Army 2/1st Lancashire Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Thurnscoe
James Gough was my grandfather. He served with the 2/1st Lancashire Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in WW1. He rarely spoke of the war, but he had a fine pair of boots. I remember him digging potatoes in the garden wearing them. He once told me that when he got them they had a pair of German legs in them. When asked how he won his medal, (he was awarded the Military Medal) he used to reply 'I got it for running away.' My father told me that he thought that he had rescued a heavy gun from a German advance, when his gun crew had been injured or killed, but he was not sure.
Pte. John Thomas Gough
British Army 15th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow
(d.5th Nov 1918)
John was the son of Hugh and Mary Gough. He was born on 12th November 1898 and lived in Possilpark Glasgow. He was killed in action on 5th November 1918, six days before the war ended. He is buried in the village of La Fraville in Northern France.
Gnr. John Gough
British Army B Battery, 123 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Belper, Derbyshire.
(d.4th May 1917)
John Gough was the elder brother of my Nan. He served with the Royal Field Artillery, B Battery, 123 Brigade. He died on May 4th 1917 and is buried at the Bucquoy Road cemetery, Ficheaux, Pas de Calais. I can find no details regarding his death, other than his medal card which simply states dead. His CWGC commemoration says died of wounds, but I have no other details. Clearly the Brigade were involved in the battle for Arras, and it was obviously a busy time. However, even the brigade war diary is not completed for the month of May.
I would be delighted if anyone can cast light on his death or those of the RFA in this early part of the battle. His Sister, my Nan lived to the ripe old age of 101, but said very little about him. She was deeply hurt at his death and remembered his birthday until her own death.
Brig-Gen. John Edmund Gough VC.
British Army Rifle Brigade
from:Regent's Park, London
(d.22nd Feb 1915)
Brigadier General, Sir John Edmond Gough, General Staff, A. D. C. to H.M The King. Chief of Staff, First Army late Rifle Brigade. VC. KCB. CMG. The award was won in Somaliland in 1903, he died of wounds on 22nd of February 1915 and is buried in the Estaires Communal Cemetery in France. He was the son of Gen. Sir Charles Gough, V.C., G.C.B. and the husband of Lady Gough, of 4 Upper Harley St., Regent's Park, London.
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