Private William Godson

Army Number: 305137 (formerly 1452)

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

Born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, 22nd March 1892. Son of John and Rosamund Godson, of 24, Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Husband of Nellie Partridge (formerly Godson), of 44, Dalestorth Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was a miner at Tibshelf Colliery and enlisted at Sutton-in-Ashfield and was killed in action, 17th October 1918, at Regnicourt, France.

Buried: Fresnoy-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Row A. Grave 23.

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