Name
Joseph Good
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/04/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
82413
Royal Field Artillery
96th Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
I.C.148
France
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Joseph was born in Rickmansworth in 1896, the son of Joseph Horbury and Nelly Rose(nee Thackham) Good, and was baptised there on the 12th of April 1896.
In 1901 the family, including Joseph age 3 and his younger brother Frederick, was living in Talbot Road, Rickmansworth. 1911 found the family at 7 Talbot Road, now with four children, Joseph age 15 being a Telegraph Messenger.
Recorded as enlisting in Marylebone, London.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war 96th Battery was in India but was immediately recalled to the UK and joined 27th Division at Winchester on the 19th of November 1914.
The Division landed in France between the 20th and 23rd of December 1914 and concentrated in the area between Aire and Arques. In 1915 they saw action at St Eloi and at the Second Battle of Ypres which lasted from the 22nd of April to the 25th of May 1915.
Among the actions was the Battle of St Julien where Joseph may have sustained the the wounds from which he died on the 27th of April in 8th Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
