Name
Gilbert Alexander Goody
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King's Royal Rifle Corps
22nd Bn. attd. 16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE
I. B. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial
Pre War
Son of the Rev. Charles James and Florence Elizabeth Riddell Goody, later of The Cottage, Myles Down, Mill Hill, London. Native of Whetstone, Middx.
In the 1891 Census, Gilbert, aged 2, is with his parents Charles and Florence and siblings at St John’s Vicarage, Whetstone, Finchley, Middx. His father was a Clergyman. By 1901 Census: Gilbert age 12 is a pupil at the Rectory, All Hallows, Hampshire.
The rest of the family were St John’s Vicarage, Whetstone, Finchley, Middx. His father was a clergyman, C. of E. There was also a governess and 3 servants living at there.
By 1911 Gilbert, now aged 22, was a lecturer in surveying, living at the Agricultural College, Uckfield, Sussex.
Wartime Service
Gilbert’s medal card shows, that he enlisted in the 19th Brigade Royal Fusiliers (2nd Public schools) he had the rank of Lance-Corporal and promoted to Corporal in the spring of 1916.
He entered the war in France, on 14th November 1915. Commissioned to Second Lieutenant in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in 1916, promoted to 6/7/1916.
Died of wounds 6th November 1916.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of March 1916, recorded: “Promotions, Gilbert Goody, Corporal Public Schools Battalion.”
Awarded 14/15 Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal.
Additional Information
His brother Geoffrey Riddel Goody was also killed.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
