Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
GODSON F.
Frank Godson
Corporal 983
1st/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Frank Godson died on Friday 16 July 1915, Age 28, and was buried in the SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born on 31st October 1886, in Beecroft's Yard, Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents John and Rosamond Godson. John Godson was a Coal Miner, and a native of Skegby, who married Rosamond Nowell (nee Boot) at St Mary's church, Sutton in July 1879. Sometime after 1891 John Godson died, and by 1901 Rosamond had remarried to Christopher White. On the 1901 census the Godson children, including Frank, were living with their mother and stepfather at Pingle Fields, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
He was the husband of Hannah Emily Godson, who lived at 21 Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, at his death. They married in 1907. Hannah did not remarry, and eventually died in January 1970.
Frank Godson was the brother of William Godson, who is also commemorated on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
FRANK GODSON Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Corporal 938 Died, France & Flanders 17th July 1915.
Research by Helen Wilson, Heather Faulkes and Celia Dodd
Further information on the GODSON family can be obtained by contacting Celia
Dodd at godson@one-name.org
