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Flight Lieutenant

Charles Eric Godfrey

Service number 100489
Military unit 5 Group Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address 18 Grove Street, Walton, Stone, Staffordshire
Date of birth 27 Mar 1905
Date of death 03 Dec 1942 (37 years old)
Place of birth Chester, Cheshire
Employment, education or hobbies

Charles had been practising has a dentist in Stone, Staffordshire. He had attended University of Birmingham. In the 1942 Dentist Register he is is listed being a registered dentist from 31/12/1928 as L.D.S. (Licentiate in Dental Surgery) from University of Birmingham in 1928.
His older brother was also a registered dentist, working in Brightlingsea.
On the 1939 England and Wales Register Charles he is listed as a School Dental Officer and was living with Maisie and their two sons at 18 Grove Road, Walton, Stone.

Family history

Son of John and Edith A. Godfrey, of 16 Wretham Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. The family had previously lived at 9 Newry Park, Chester.
Siblings: John Frederick (1890), Olive Elsie (1892) and Edith Lilian (1907).
He married Maisie Benson from 2 Sadler Street, Mansfield in 1934 and they had 2 children, John C born in 1938 and Adrian C in 1940, both were born in Mansfield.
Maisie remarried in 1949 to Heinz E C Wollin.

Military history

Based with 5 Group at RAF North Luddenham, Rutland, He died of a gun-shot wound at approx 11:55 hrs at RAF North Luffenham.

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