Name
William Marshall Goodman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/05/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17418
Suffolk Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 21.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield War Memorial
Pre War
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy William Goodman, of 34, Norwich St., Cambridge.
In the 1911 Census, William, age 14, was working as a houseboy (domestic), and living with his parents Percy and Emma and siblings. The family were living at 55 Cambridge Place, Cambridge.
Officially recorded as born in Cambridge and was living there when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
Private 17418 in the Suffolk Regiment, Battalion: 1st Battalion.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of August 1915, recorded: “Killed - Goodman, William.”
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Goodman, William M. query Woodside, joined up from Cambridge. Formerly foreman at Sir William Church’s estate.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
