Name
Ernest Albert Goodey
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
51193
East Yorkshire Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PONT-D'ACHELLES MILITARY CEMETERY, NIEPPE
III. B. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON ERNIE EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross memorials
Pre War
Ernest Albert Goodey was born in Waltham New Town, Hertfordshire, in 1899, son of Albert Edward Goodey an, Explosives Worker at The Royal Gun Powder Factory, Waltham Abbey, Essex, and Florence Mary Goodey (nee Pryor). The eldest of four children.
He was Baptised on the 25th June 1902, in the Parish of Waltham Cross, Herts, with his brother Albert Edward.
1901 Census records Ernest aged 1, living with his parents at, 25 Melbourne Road, Waltham Cross, Herts. The family had a boarder living with them Arthur Pryor (17) a Garden Nursery Worker.
1911 census records Ernest aged 11, at school, living with his parents, brother Albert (8), sisters Florence (5), and Doris (1), still at, 25 Melbourne Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Wartime Service
Ernest Enlisted at Bedford, Beds, posted to the East Yorkshire Regiment, with the service number 51193. On completion of his training, he arrived on the Western Front joining the 10th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire regiment, (1st Hull) – (Hull Commercials), a Pal’s Battalion.
Ernest was killed by a direct hit from an enemy shell as he and his comrades made their way through the ruins of the Village of Nieppe in France, under cover of darkness in the small hours of the 3rd September 1918. They were on their way to relieve the front line and expecting to take part in an attack on the German positions in the coming days. Ernest and nine of his comrades were killed by the shell.
He is buried in the CWGC Pont-D’ Achelles Military Cemetery in Nieppe, France.
Additional Information
His father, A. E. Goodey, Esq., 25, Melbourne Road, Waltham Cross, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON ERNIE EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS".
His mother Florence received a dependents pension of 12/- a
week from 24th February 1919. His effects of 7d, Pay Owing and his
War Gratuity of £4-19s-5d, went to his father Albert.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
