Mr. and Mrs H. Goodwin, of 285, Mill-road, Cambridge, have received news that their son, Corpl. Harry Rupert Goodwin, the 1/1st Cambs. Yeomanry, was killed in the Dardanelles on December 5th while in the act of helping a wounded comrade. Corpl. Goodwin, who was 27 years age, had been in the Yeomanry about 7 or 8 years. He was called up at the outbreak of war, and went out to the Dardanelles about three months ago. It was only a week ago that Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin last heard from their son. He wrote very cheery and contented letters home. In one he expressed the opinion that the Government were doing as well as they could by him. He was getting fresh meat four times a week, and he was getting tea, milk and sugar every day, which was more than he expected to get.
The sad news of Corpl. Goodwin’s death was conveyed in the following letter from his officer, Lieut. E. C. M. Flint:
"Dear Mrs. Goodwin, As you have probably been notified already, I regret very much to say your son was killed yesterday. He was in the act of helping a wounded man at the moment, and it is hard to imagine a finer end. He had been corporal for 15 months, and during that time I have never known him do anything but his level best at whatever he had to do. He was one of the most unselfish men I ever met in my life, and I feel I have lost not only my very best non-commissioned officer but also a real and true friend. For some time past out here I know he has been feeling ill—a good deal more ill than many who went to hospital; but never once did complain, and he stuck it right through like the real man he was. I can only add how very sorry indeed I am for you in your great loss. But none could have died in a better way. We have buried him close by our camp, and the grave is beautifully cared for by the men his section, who loved him to a man. The burial was last night, and the service read by the Rev. Foullkes. of the Norfolk Yeomanry. It was all most impressive, with guns firing all the time. It is men like your son who will help England to win, and it is very hard that they should be taken from us."
(Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 31 December 1915)
The sad news of Corpl. Goodwin’s death was conveyed in the following letter from his officer, Lieut. E. C. M. Flint:
"Dear Mrs. Goodwin, As you have probably been notified already, I regret very much to say your son was killed yesterday. He was in the act of helping a wounded man at the moment, and it is hard to imagine a finer end. He had been corporal for 15 months, and during that time I have never known him do anything but his level best at whatever he had to do. He was one of the most unselfish men I ever met in my life, and I feel I have lost not only my very best non-commissioned officer but also a real and true friend. For some time past out here I know he has been feeling ill—a good deal more ill than many who went to hospital; but never once did complain, and he stuck it right through like the real man he was. I can only add how very sorry indeed I am for you in your great loss. But none could have died in a better way. We have buried him close by our camp, and the grave is beautifully cared for by the men his section, who loved him to a man. The burial was last night, and the service read by the Rev. Foullkes. of the Norfolk Yeomanry. It was all most impressive, with guns firing all the time. It is men like your son who will help England to win, and it is very hard that they should be taken from us."
(Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 31 December 1915)
Mr. and Mrs H. Goodwin, of 285, Mill-road, Cambridge, have received news that their son, Corpl. Harry Rupert Goodwin, the 1/1st Cambs. Yeomanry, was killed in the Dardanelles on December 5th while in the act of helping a wounded comrade. Corpl. Goodwin, who was 27 years age, had been in the Yeomanry about 7 or 8 years. He was called up at the outbreak of war, and went out to the Dardanelles about three months ago. It was only a week ago that Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin last heard from their son. He wrote very cheery and contented letters home. In one he expressed the opinion that the Government were doing as well as they could by him. He was getting fresh meat four times a week, and he was getting tea, milk and sugar every day, which was more than he expected to get.
The sad news of Corpl. Goodwin’s death was conveyed in the following letter from his officer, Lieut. E. C. M. Flint:
"Dear Mrs. Goodwin, As you have probably been notified already, I regret very much to say your son was killed yesterday. He was in the act of helping a wounded man at the moment, and it is hard to imagine a finer end. He had been corporal for 15 months, and during that time I have never known him do anything but his level best at whatever he had to do. He was one of the most unselfish men I ever met in my life, and I feel I have lost not only my very best non-commissioned officer but also a real and true friend. For some time past out here I know he has been feeling ill—a good deal more ill than many who went to hospital; but never once did complain, and he stuck it right through like the real man he was. I can only add how very sorry indeed I am for you in your great loss. But none could have died in a better way. We have buried him close by our camp, and the grave is beautifully cared for by the men his section, who loved him to a man. The burial was last night, and the service read by the Rev. Foullkes. of the Norfolk Yeomanry. It was all most impressive, with guns firing all the time. It is men like your son who will help England to win, and it is very hard that they should be taken from us."
(Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 31 December 1915)
The sad news of Corpl. Goodwin’s death was conveyed in the following letter from his officer, Lieut. E. C. M. Flint:
"Dear Mrs. Goodwin, As you have probably been notified already, I regret very much to say your son was killed yesterday. He was in the act of helping a wounded man at the moment, and it is hard to imagine a finer end. He had been corporal for 15 months, and during that time I have never known him do anything but his level best at whatever he had to do. He was one of the most unselfish men I ever met in my life, and I feel I have lost not only my very best non-commissioned officer but also a real and true friend. For some time past out here I know he has been feeling ill—a good deal more ill than many who went to hospital; but never once did complain, and he stuck it right through like the real man he was. I can only add how very sorry indeed I am for you in your great loss. But none could have died in a better way. We have buried him close by our camp, and the grave is beautifully cared for by the men his section, who loved him to a man. The burial was last night, and the service read by the Rev. Foullkes. of the Norfolk Yeomanry. It was all most impressive, with guns firing all the time. It is men like your son who will help England to win, and it is very hard that they should be taken from us."
(Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 31 December 1915)
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