Notts Free Press, 22nd November 1918
GODSON W.
William Godson
Private 305137
1st/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Notts Free Press, 22nd November 1918
William Godson died on Thursday 17 October 1918, aged 26 years, and was buried in the FRESNOY-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Aisne, France.
He was born on 22nd March 1892 at Swan Street, 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 William, were living with their mother and stepfather at Pingle Fields, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
He married Nelly Ellis in 1914 and they lived at 44 Dalestorth Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield at the time of his death. William and Nelly had two children, Doris and George; his son was born in early 1919. Nelly remarried in 1919 to George Partridge.
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 Notts Free Press, 22nd November 1918 |
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
WILLIAM GODSON Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 305137 Killed in Action, France & Flanders 17th Oct 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes and Celia Dodd
Further information on the GODSON family can be obtained by contacting Celia
Dodd at godson@one-name.org
