Notes
The Roll lists his address as 74 Percival Street, and states he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It records that he died in Boulogne Hospital, but official records state he died in Poperinghe.
(CWGC records that Gunner C R Goakes, regimental number 37397, died on 6/11/1914 while serving in 3rd Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and is buried in grave I.L.28 at Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery in Belgium. Charles' birth was registered in Peterborough in 1885. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents, Isaac and Harriet, in Aldershot. By the 1911 census he was serving in India as a Private in the 7th King's Dragoon Guards. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he had enlisted in Peterborough on 8/2/1905, having formerly been a waiter, that he died in Poperinghe, and that his father Isaac was his legatee).