Name
George Goldsmith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
110823
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
George appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish records suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was baptised on September 1st 1895, the son of Frederick and Prudence Elizabeth Goldsmith (née Titmuss). Baptism and census records list eight children: Grace (b 1888 or 1889), Frank (bapt 1891), Elsie (b 1893), George (b 1895), Lilian Ruth (b 1898), Effie (b 1900), Lennard (sic) (b c1905) and Charly (sic) (b c1908). In 1911, George was working as a general labourer.
He is recorded in the Parish Magazine of July 1916 as enlisting between October 21st 1915 and March 2nd 1916 and serving in the Royal Field Artillery, so he would have been twenty years old when he enlisted. The 1918 Absent Voters’ List records him as Private 110823, confirming that he was with the Royal Field Artillery, and his home address as Little Green.
Evidenced by the birth date, George seems to have married Maud Isabella (surname unknown) and both are recorded in St. Mary’s Church’s Garden of Rest, Maud died in 1967, aged seventy and George in 1973, aged seventy-eight.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission.
