200947 Pte Walter Goff, 1st Bn, Sherwood Foresters

200947 Pte Walter Goff of the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was killed in action on the 17th February 1918. Walter's number belongs to the series which was allocated to the 5th Battalion, and his medal index card also shows his original number - 3284.

Walter enlisted at Long Eaton, Derbyshire and he was the husband of Edith Alice Goff, of 19 St James Terrace, College Street, Long Eaton. He was 28 years old when he died. He is buried in Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War