Name
Claude Pendarvis Goodman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/08/1916
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
XIV.B.4
France
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, Nr Rickmansworth
St. John's Church Memorial, Heronsgate, nr Rickmansworth
Pre War
Claude was born in Islington 11th of January 1881 the son of George and Lavinia(nee Rundle) Goodman.
In 1881 George was described as a Traveller and with his family and one servant was living 338 Liverpool Road, Islington. In 1891, now with five children, they were at Brockhill House, East Barnet Road, Barnet. 1901 found the family at Elm House, Green Lane, Tottenham with Claude, age 20, a Stockbroker's Clerk.
In 1908 Claude married Lilian Elizabeth Lavender in Marylebone and their son Claude B R Goodman was born in 1909. On the 1911 census they were at Lawrence House, Heronsgate with one servant. A second son George W J Goodman was born in 1913.
Lilian did not remarry and died 2nd of March 1944 in The Royal Hospital Richmond while living at 90 Lichfield Court, Richmond. Her son Claude Beresford Rundle Goodman, Merchant Seaman, administered her estate valued at £581.11s.5d.
Wartime Service
Formerly Private No 2028 in the Army Pay Corps but granted a commission on the 28th of October 1915.
The 4th Battalion was formed in August 1914 in Seaforth, Liverpool and landed Le Havre 6th March 1915 coming under the command of Sirhind Brigade, Lahore Division of the India Corps. After two earlier transfers the Battalion joined 98th Brigade 33rd Division on the 27th of February 1915.
Actions in 1915 included Neuve Chapelle, Second Ypres and Loos, and in 1916 Albert, Bazentin and then the attacks on High Wood. These lasted from the 14th of July to the 15th of September 1916. Claude was posted missing on the 18th of August after apparently being hit by a shell in the trenches at Bazentin-le-Grand. The Battalion had attacked the German first line to the right of High Wood in front of Mametz Wood.
He was buried locally on the 29th of August, but in 1920 or 1921 his remains were moved to Caterpillar Valley Cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
