Name
Frederick Tyrell Godman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1917
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Sussex Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL
VII. A. 16.
Germany
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Wiversfield Churchyard, Sussex
Pre War
Born on 26 Nov 1875 in The Barracks, Tipperary, Ireland son of Gen. Richard Temple and Elizabeth Mary Champion (de Crespigny) Godman. Educated at Haileybury College 1890-92. He married Josephine Eleanor Ellison in Esquimalt, B.C. Canada on 24 Feb 1910 and they lived in 185 Ashley Gardens, London SW. He was a brewer.
Wartime Service
Wounded and taken prisoner at Loos, 25 Sep 1915. Died while a POW in Holzminden, Brunswick, Germany.
Additional Information
His son Thomas Ellison Godman fell in World War Two.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
