306098 Pte Ernest Goodacre, 1/8th Bn, Sherwood Foresters

4,585 British officers and men died on his single day - 23rd April - in 1917. 306098 Private Ernest Goodacre of the 1/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters was one of 70 Notts and Derbyshire men to die on this day. He was killed in action.

Ernest was living in Worksop and he enlisted in Newark. His original number with this Territorial Force battalion was 3507, indicating that he enlisted in the second half of January 1915. He arrived in France on the 28th June 1915.

Ernest was 29 years old when he died. He was the son of Thomas and Clara Goodacre of 2 Duke Place, Worksop, and the husband of Mabel Alice Goodacre of 12 Forrest's Yard, Worksop. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

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

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission