GOODMAN, Thomas Henry

Thomas was born 1889 in Dum Dum, India to Major William & Mrs Ellen (nee GODDEN) GOODMAN, who were living in Carisbrooke at the time of Thomas’ death. He married Ellen Jane, who was residing at 11 E Block, Whittington Barracks in Lichfield. In 1891 the family were living at Stagg Road in Brading & in 1901 at Primrose Villa, Alvington Road in Carisbrooke.

Thomas was Killed in Action on the 6th of September 1915 & originally buried on the battlefield near to where he fell with a simple wooden cross marking his grave. Thomas’ body was later exhumed & reburied in the Irish Farm Cemetery in Belgium. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “I ONLY YIELD THEE WHAT WAS THINE THY WILL BE DONE MOTHER”, alongside 1,455 of his First World War comrades.

Thomas is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke War Memorials.