Name
Eric John Goodhart (DCM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1914
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
28055
Royal Engineers
2nd Signal Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Medaille Militaire (France)
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EAST DONYLAND CEMETERY
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born 13 Nov 1893 in Fox Bay, Falkland Islands, son of John Stella and Florence Marian (Cramp) Goodhart. Educated at Haileybury College 1908 – 13 and Clare College, Cambridge. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Chatham, Kent on 6 Aug 1914 as a dispatch rider. Mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 Oct 1914). He served in France at Mons and at 2nd Division HQ at Ypres until Nov 1914. DCM (8 Oct 1914). He came home for five days leave, fell ill with typhoid fever and died at home in Colchester.
Mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 Oct 1914)
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
