1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Thomas Godfrey

Contributed by: Stephen Godfrey, on 2008-11-12

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Rank
First Name Thomas
Surname Godfrey
Year of Birth 1898
Year of Death 1917
Regiment Royal Irish Regiment
Place of Wartime Residence Hornsey, Greater London

Thomas's Story

Killed at 3rd Ypres near Passcendale 17th August 1917. Very strange as neither my father nor uncle knew of his existence. Perhaps so traumatic was his loss to my great grandparents (he was the eldest of, eventually, twelve) that no one talked of it until many years later.

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