Name
Arthur William Goodedge
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/07/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13706
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC
II. C. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Nettleden & Frithsden Gate & Plaque, Church of St Lawrence, Nettleden, Not on the Boxmoor memorials, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Arthur William Goodege was born in Great Berkhamsted in 1888 and is believed to be the illegitimate son of Sarah Goodege.
On the 1891 Census he was living with his grandparents, Frederick and Eliza Goodege at 15 Nettleden Hamlet, where his grandfather was an agricultural labourer. He remained with them on the 1901 Census at the same address, at which time he was working as a 12 year old house boy domestic. In 1911 he was still living with his grandparents in Nettleden but was then working as an agricultural labourer.
He married Esther Killick in late 1911 in Hemel Hempstead and they had two children, Gladys Jane (born 1913) and Frederick William (born 1915). Her address on pension records was given as Rectory Room, Little Gaddesden, Herts. She later she lived at 15 St Margarets, nr Hemel Hempstead.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and served with the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 26 July 1915.
He died of wounds at the 27th Field Ambulance in France on 19 July 1916, age 28. The circumstances of his death are not known, but casualties were sustained on the previous day when the cookhouse was shelled.
He is buried at Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec, Somme, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £1 3s 6d. She also received a pension of 18s 6d a week for herself and her two children. N.B. on some records Goodege is mispelt as Goodedge or Goodage.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
