Basic Details
Surname
Goodwin
Forenames
Walter
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
2460
Notes
The Roll lists his address as Werrington, where his parents were living on the 1911 census.

(CWGC records that Lance Corporal W Goodwin, regimental number 2460, died on 25/5/1916 while serving in 1st/7th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, and is buried in grave I.D.7 at Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he enlisted in Nottingham. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects recorded him as Walter William Goodwin, and that his widow May was his legatee. On the 1911 census he had been living with May and their children at 11 West Terrace, Sherwood Street, Nottingham. Walter William Goodwin had married May Carter in Peterborough District in 1906. On the 1901 census he had been living with his parents John and Rebecca in Peterborough. His parents had moved to Church Street in Werrington by the 1911 census. Walter is named on the Werrington War Memorial, along with his younger brothers Seth and Sidney).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army (British)
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Notts and Derby
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
Not stated
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Lance Corporal
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Not stated
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1916
Month of death
May
Day of death
25
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
WERRINGTON
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial