Name
Roy Ernest Gould
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Panels 32 to 38.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
Son of John Herbert Gould and the late Palacia C. Gould, of Ravenswood, Loughton, Essex. Roy was born on the 30th May 1895 and his home was at "Ravenswood', Loughton, Essex.
He entered the School in September 1908 and left in July 1909 to go to the Leys at Cambridge. A later address for his father appears to be "Taormina," South Border, Purley, Surrey.
Wartime Service
On joining the army, he was a Rifleman in the Queen's Westminster's, but later he was commissioned.
At the time of his death he was serving with the 1/7th Essex Regiment which was part of the 161st Brigade in the 54th Division in Palestine. He was killed in action during the First Battle of Gaza. This battle was fraught with the usual muddled orders and lack of adequate preparation common to most attacks organised by the British Generals and which cost so many thousands of lives. He has no known grave but is remembered on the Jerusalem Memorial to the Missing in Israel He was killed on the 27th March 1917 aged 21 years and he had previously been wounded in France.
Additional Information
He may appear as H B Gould on the school memorial.
*1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
