Private Archer (Archie) Godfrey, 3/6526, 1st Battalion, Beds Regt, was killed in action on November 9th, 1914. He was aged 23.

Born in Caddington the son of Alfred and Elizabeth Godfrey, of The Green, he was listed in the 1911 Census as a bricklayer. At the time of his death his family had lived at 32 St Saviour's Crescent, Luton, for two years.

Mr and Mrs Godfrey had two other sons, a son-in-law and two nephews who had joined the Colours. The nephews, Pte Horace Mardle (1/5th Bedfords), of Caddington, and Pte Joseph Pashley (Coldstream Guards), from Nottingham, had also been killed.