GOODWIN Thomas Harold

  • First Name(s):
    Thomas 
    Harold 
  • Surname:
    GOODWIN
  • Service Number:
    2927
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Cavalry
  • Corps:
    Imperial Yeomanry
  • Regiment:
    Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry)
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    23rd April 1916
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, Panel 3 and 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Goodwin, 10 Waterworks Road, Worcester

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

GOODWIN Thomas Harold Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester Cathedral Worcestershire Hussars
Worcester Guildhall
Worcester St George’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Worcester Cathedral Worcestershire Hussars with the information: Private.

Further Information About GOODWIN Thomas Harold

T.H. Goodwin 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 2nd Draft, embarked at Devonport 15th November 1915 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on 6th December 1915. Killed in action on 23rd April 1916.

Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 – 1922.

Great Western Railway Roll of Honour:
Thomas Harold Goodwin Clerk/Goods Department/Worcester Private, Queens Worcester Hussars, Killed in Action 23/4/1916.

Source: The Great Western Railway in the First World War by Sandra Gittins, 2010.

Entered Company’s service as a clerk in the District Goods Manager’s Office at Worcester in October 1910. In November 1914 transferred to Clerk, Goods Department, Worcester. Death reported in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1916/07/169. Photo in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1916/09/213

A photograph of Trooper T.H. Goodwin can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 13th May 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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