Name
Ada Evelyn Goddard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Ada Goddard was born in the winter of 1886 at Hersham, and was one of three children (one son and two daughters) born to William and Emma Goddard. In the 1911 Census William Goddard’s occupation was recorded as a Gardener working at Langley House, Abbots Langley. In the 1891 and 1901 Census the family lived in Surrey. In the 1901 Census, Ada was recorded as a “Mother’s Help”.
Ada’s brother Theodore Goddard, died of an illness whilst serving in France, on 10th January 1918. He had recently returned from leave and died as a result of complications of inflamed kidneys and rheumatism. Ada was not remembered or recorded in the Abbots Langley records, and her service, as a Nurse in France, would have gone unrecognised had she not been mentioned in the obituary for Theodore printed in the Hertfordshire Advertiser in January 1918.
Nothing more is known about her Service, and it is presumed that Ada Goddard survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
