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2nd Lieutenant Leslie Keith GIFFORD-WOOD Captain Lewis Wilberforce GOLDSMITH Private Charles GOODWIN  
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Keith GIFFORD-WOOD
Photo from that of 6th Battalion Officers, 1915		   2nd Lieutenant Leslie Keith GIFFORD-WOOD

6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 22 August 1915.

Commemorated Panel 55 to 58, Helles Memorial.
   
Captain (Temporary) Lewis Wilberforce GOLDSMITH
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  Captain (Temporary) Lewis Wilberforce GOLDSMITH

A Company, 7th (Service) Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
Killed in action on the 5th of November 1916 aged 21.

The following information on Captain Lewis Wilberforce Goldsmith, and the photo on the left, has been provided by John Hamblin (<jc.hamblin@btopenworld.com>);-

He was born in Aveton Gifford in Devon on the 9th of July 1895 the eldest son of Francis Thomas Wilberforce Goldsmith and Mary H Goldsmith of Chislehurst. He was educated at Merton Court Preparatory School in Sidcup and at the King's School Canterbury from January 1910 to July 1914 where he was granted a Junior Scholarship in July 1910 and a Senior Scholarship in June 1913. He was a keen rower and rugby player, playing in the Rugby XV in 1913 and was made a school monitor in September 1913.

He was entered for St John's College Oxford but instead applied for a commission and was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment being promoted to Lieutenant in September 1914.

On the 5th of April 1915 he was promoted to Temporary Captain and sailed for France with his battalion on the 13th of July 1915, landing at Boulogne. He saw action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme being one of the few officers in the battalion to be neither killed nor wounded during the day. He saw action with the battalion through the summer on the Somme and on the 4th of November 1916 the battalion received orders to carry out a "small attack" against an enemy trench which ran up to the edge of the road to Le Transloy. It was decided that in view of the relatively small objective that A Company alone would be sufficient to make the attack.

At 10am on the morning of the 5th the British artillery opened up a heavy fire which intensified onto the enemy front line at 11.10am, when A Company went over the top to the attack. Soon after midday the officer commanding the neighbouring battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment reported that he could see the enemy "running like hell" and this was soon corroborated by Lieutenant Robertson of A Company although he reported that losses had been heavy and that Captain Goldsmith had been wounded. Captain Goldsmith was being carried to the rear on a stretcher when he was struck and killed by machine gun fire which also killed three of the stretcher bearers. It was thought by eyewitnesses that this had been a deliberate act by the Germans.

Commemorated n the Thiepval Memorial Panel and Face 3A and 3D. He is also commemorated on both the Foots Cray and Sidcup memorials.
   
Private Charles Goodwin
For a larger sized image, click on this thumbnail. Click anywhere in the new window to close it. 		  Private Charles GOODWIN.

The following information on Charles Goodwin was supplied by Ian Wright (<iancharleswright@msn.com>), his great grandson;-
"... born 1888 and died 1974. Served with the Green Howards during the Great War. He was born in Middlesbrough, but eventually settled in Halifax. He was the son of Benjamin and Alice (nee Watson) Goodwin. He had two brothers George and William and I believe at least one of them, George, also served with the Green Howards."

(Photo supplied by Ian Wright (<iancharleswright@msn.com>))