Lance Corporal Walter Jesse Goodge
Rank or Title
Date of Birth
1896
Date of Death
22 Jul 1917
War time / or Pre War occupation
Farm labourer
Regiment
Service Number
50300
Place of Birth
United Kingdom
World War I Address
Darley Hall
Nr Luton
Place of Death
France
Grave Location
Philosophe British Cemetery
Mazingarbe
FranceWar Memorial Location
Soldier or Civilian
- Soldier
Source
The Luton News , 2nd August 1917
L-Cpl Walter Jesse Goodge, 50300, 9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action in France on July 22nd, 1917. He was aged 21.
Lieut G. K. Moseley, of the Suffolk Regiment, wrote to parents Albert and Harriet Goodge, of Darley Hall, near Luton: "On the morning of the 22nd at 12.15am a gas shell came over and landed in our front line trenches, killing your son where he stood at his post. The effect of these shells is not shattering like that of high explosives, but as it landed very close L-Cpl Goodge was killed instantly, and there could have been no suffering."
On some military and Census records Pte Goodge is shown only as Jesse Goodge. In 1911 he was a boy labourer on a farm.
Author: Deejaya
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