Name
Albert Edward Godman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Sergeant Major
8481
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IV. C. 39.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo, Not on the Hertford Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Kempston, Bedfordshire son of John Kentish and Annie Jane (Phillips) Godman.
He was living in Hertford when he enlisted and married Alice Mary Brooks (later Mrs Smith) in 1915 in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford and was already with his regiment in 1911 and died of wounds probably in a hospital at Boulogne.
An article in the Hertfordshire Express dated the 5th of May 1917 appears confirm his likely place of death:
"News came to Police-constable Godman on Wednesday that his son, Sergeant-Major Albert E. Godman, Beds. Regiment, aged 29, had died from wounds in the stationary hospital at Boulogne on April 28.
"This brave soldier, before the outbreak of war, had served 12 years in the Regular Army and spent most of time abroad with his regiment. "He was born a soldier and he died a soldier" is the testimony of his father, for whom, and his widow and young child, great sympathy is felt by the parish of Stotfold in their loss. His brother is a prisoner of war."
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Malcolm Lennox
