Private Albert Goddard

Army Number: 12015

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Fernilee, Derbyshire and lived at Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire. Son of Samuel and Mary Goddard of Macclesfield Road, Whaley Bridge. He was a coal waggoner prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private Albert Goddard is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Whaley Bridge Memorial Park War Memorial, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.