Name
F Godfrey
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/35558
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS
IV. B. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross
Pre War
Frederick Godfrey was born in Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, in 1887, son of Joseph Godfrey a, Farm Worker and Mary Sophia Godfrey (nee Isaacson/Watts). The eldest of three children.
1891 Census records Frederick aged 4, living with his parents and sister Caroline 7 months in, Mill Lane, Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire. The Census has the family as Godfry.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 14, working as an Agricultural Labourer, living with his parents, sister Caroline (10) and brother George (8) at, Hall farm Cottage, Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire.
By 1911 Frederick (25) had left home and was working as a Nursery Garden Labourer, boarding with Harry and Edith Potter and their family at, 14 Cecil Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
Frederick married Sarah Jane Eliza Sizeland the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Sizeland, in 1912, the marriage was registered in Edmonton, Middlesex, they went on to have a daughter Winifred Constance Jane Godfrey, born in 1913.
Sarah remarried in August 1921, to Ralph James Patching.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in London, posted to The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) with the service number G/35558.
On completion of his training Frederick arrived on the Western Front, joining the 7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent regiment). He was Killed in Action on the 26th October 1918.
Additional Information
Sarah received a widow’s pension of 30/5 a week from 30th June 1919, and his effects of £1-8s-11d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £5.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
