Name
Henry Thomas Goss
16 July 1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1914
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12656
Royal Marine Light Infantry
H.M.S. "Good Hope"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Navy Star, British War Medal and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 6
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Henry Thomas Goss was born on 16 July 1880 in Baldock, Hertfordshire, the son of Thomas and Matilda Goss.
His father died in 1878 and on the 1881 Census Henry (aged 2) was living with his widowed mother in the High Street, Baldock. She remarried in 1882 to Alfred South and by the time of the 1891 Census Henry was living with his new family, consisting of five half siblings and one step sibling. In 1901 the family were living at Orchard Road, Baldock at which time Henry was working as a groom domestic.
Wartime Service
Henry was a serving soldier with the Royal Marine Light Infantry at the outbreak of war, having enlisted on 1 December 1902. He had served on several ships, including Suffolk, Vulcan, Goliath, Prince George, Prince of Wales, and Revenge.
He served on HMS Good Hope from 17 August 1914 but was killed in action on 1 November 1914, aged 36, whilst the ship was at Coronel, on the coast of Chile. His body was not recovered for burial and his name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £5 was paid to his next of kin who was recorded as his half sister Miss Olive South, Bygrave Lane, Baldock, Herts.
No pension cards have been found.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
