Name
Frederick Goodyear
5/03/1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VI. G. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Kings Langley Memorials, Brasenose Collage, Oxford, WW1 Memorial Plaque.
Pre War
Frederick Goodyear was born on 5 March 1878, in Finchley, Middlesex, son of Frederick Goodyear (1845-1937) a Businessman, Coal Merchant and Local Politician and Anne Maria Goodyear (1850-1941) (nee Browne). One of four children Nora (B 1878-1897), Edith (B 1880) and George (B 1892).
1891 Census records Frederick aged 4, living with his parents and two siblings, at Fallow Corner, Finchley, Middlesex. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant.
1901 Census has the family living at Colebrook, Finchley, Middlesex. With two live-in Domestic Servants a Housemaid and Cook.
Frederick attended Oxford University from October 1905 where he Graduated with a B.A. from Brasenose college, Oxford.
1911 Census records Frederick aged 24, single, and working as a Newspaper Journalist, living with his parents, and two siblings, at Fallow Corner, Granville Road, North Finchley, Middlesex. The family had two live-in Domestic Servants a Housemaid and Cook.
In April 1914, Frederick took a job as Assistant Manager of the Oxford University Press at Bombay, India. He returned home in January 1915 and enlisted straight away.
At one time he lived in Railway Wharf, Kings Langley, Herts.
Wartime Service
On his return to England from India, Frederick enlisted in February 1915, at Duke Street, St Pancreas, London, the H.Q. of 28th (Artist Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment as a Private with the service number 3358, arriving in France in May 1915. Transferring in September 1915 to the Royal Engineers with the service number 93324, by this time he held the Rank of Corporal. In January 1917, he left the Royal engineers returning to England for Officer training. He was Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant and posted to the Essex Regiment in February 1917, leaving for France on 16 March 1917, to join his Battalion. Seeing action around Arras.
At about 6-45.am on 12 May 1917, during an attack on Fampoux, France, his dugout was hit by a shell he and his batman were buried but quickly dug out, his legs were severely injured, he was taken to the 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing station, and part his left leg was amputated, a day later part of his right leg was also amputated. He died of his wounds and infection on 23 May 1917, aged 30.
Additional Information
There was a book published of Frederick Goodyear's letters home and of his Poetry. “Frederick Goodyear, Letters and Remains, 1887-1917” By Archives.Org.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
