Photo: Northern Echo 16/08/2006
Medal Index Card
Goggin's Post
Lance Corporal Peter Goggins was shot at dawn on the 18th January 1917 for desertion, at the same time as Lance-Corporal McDonald, (Millfield Sunderland) and Lance Sergeant Stones (Crook). All three lie side by side in St. Pol cemetery.
Attached is a photo of the post erected to his memory in the area set aside to commemorate those shot at dawn in the National Memorial Arboretum.
Shot At Dawn; Putkowski and Sykes; Leo Cooper; 1989; ISBN 0 85052 295 1
Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War; Corns and Hughes-Wilson; Cassell; 2001; ISBN – 304 36449 5
Peter Goggins is remembered at Stanley on S135.03 and at South Moor S129.01, also at Durham in the DLI Book of Remembrance page 8.
