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The Roll lists his address as 8 Richmond Row, Eastgate. It correctly records the spelling of his second forename as "Matthew", but it was recorded in Army documents as "Mathew". It incorrectly recorded his regimental number as 23556; it was actually 23566.
(His birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1880 as George Matthew Goodley, which was therefore his legal name. He was baptised as such at St Mary's Church in Peterborough on 30/10/1881, as the son of Matthew and Elizabeth Goodley of Whitsed Street in Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at 40 Whalley Road in Peterborough. When he married Elizabeth Crowson on 15/5/1904 at St Mary's Church in Peterborough, he was recorded in the Marriage register as George Matthew Goodley, aged 24, of 30 Pipe Lane, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he and his wife Elizabeth were living at 18 Bedford Street in Peterborough.
CWGC records that Private George Mathew Goodley died on 12/10/1917 serving in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. CWGC's online database currently records his regimental number as 23565, but their casualty registers correctly record it as 23566. As his Army documents confirm that his true regimental number was 23566, CWGC have been requested to amend their online database. Soldiers Died in the Great War likewise recorded him as "George Mathew Goodley", a native of Peterborough, indicating that his regimental number was 23566, and that he had formerly served in the Royal Engineers under regimental number 174190. The Medal Rolls did not record his service in the Royal Engineers, but did state that he served in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment under the regimental number 23566, before joining the 16th Battalion. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects similarly recorded him as "George Mathew Goodley", regimental number 23566, stating that he died serving in the 1st Battalion, and that his widow Elizabeth was his legatee. On 17/11/1917 the Peterborough Advertiser announced the death of " Private Matthew (Dick) Goodley", describing him as the son of Mr & Mrs M Goodley of Whalley Street, and stating he had joined the Royal Engineers in April 1916 and had later transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was reported to have gone to France in January 1917, and been wounded on April 1st. He had then returned to France on 13th June and had been killed on October 12th).