Corporal Frank Godson

Army Number: 983

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, 31st October 1886. Son of John and Rosamund Godson, of 24, Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Husband of Hannah Emily Godson, of 21, Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was a coal miner for Babbington Coal Company at Tibshelf Colliery, Derbyshire. He enlisted at Sutton-in-Ashfield on 22nd August 1910 and was promoted to Corporal on 26th September 1914. He went to France on 2nd March 1915 and was accidentally killed on 16th July 1915, aged 28, by a comrade whose rifle fired whilst he was cleaning it.

Buried: Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row F. Grave 22.

Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium.
Corporal Frank Godson grave

Corporal Godson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.

His brother Private William Godson 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.