Ernest Goddard
1911 railway porter, drayman
- Family History
- Military history
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Ernest Goddard was born in Radford in 1882 and was the son of Thomas Goddard.
Ernest married his wife Mary Elizabeth Enerby (born 22nd March 1881 East Bridgford) on 22nd Janaury 1910 at St Saviours Church, Nottingham.
In the 1911 census he is living at 228 Waterway Street, Nottingham he is shown as Ernest Goddard 28 yrs a railway porter drayman and he is living with his wife Mary Elizabeth 27 yrs
Commencing 23rd August 1915 his widow was awarded a pension of 10 shillings a week.
His widow remarried on 10th February 1917 to Private George Dawson of the 14th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment.
Boer War veteran, Private Ernest Goddard, was born in Radford and enlisted at Grimsby he served with the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action on 5th February 1915, he has no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
His brother was Sergeant William Albert Goddard 15th Field Coy Royal Engineers who was killed in action 25th September 1915
Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 19 October 1915: 'GODDARD, killed in action September 25th Sergeant WA Goddard, Royal Engineers, age 35; also brother Ernest, killed in action February 5th. Sherwood Street Nottingham – mother'.
Ernest Goddard
Photograph was published in the Nottingham Evening Post on 26th March 1915, courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918