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Goodfellow, J., L/Cpl., 1915

Alnwick Gazette Almanack 1916

Menin Gate Memorial

On the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the name of 1949 Lance Corporal James Goodfellow, serving with the 1st/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 26/04/1915.

Morpeth Herald 21/05/1915 carries a brief obituary:
Official information was received on Monday by Mr Matthew Goodfellow, Raikes Street, Alnwick, that his second son, Lance-Cpl. James Goodfellow, was killed in action on April 26th. He was 31 years of age, and when war broke out he enlisted for foreign service with the 7th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, in the same company in which his father had served for 40 years and was colour-sergeant for some years before his retirement.

He is remembered at Alnwick on A11.01, A11.03, A11.22 and in the Battalion History


The CWGC entry for Lance Corporal Goodfellow

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk