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Private 26086 Stephen Goodall
5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment

Local Information:

Private Goodall was born in Nass County Kildare, Ireland and enlisted at Reading. At the time of his enlistment his place of residence was shown as Hungerford, Berkshire. It is not known why he was in the town but he had previous service with the 1st/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (Number 4/2521).

He died on Thursday 14th June 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing, west – Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Regimental Information:

The War Diary reads:




	The Regimental Badge of the Dorsetshire Regiment

9.6.1917:
The battalion moved from Boeschepe to Kemmel, where they stayed till 6.00pm before relieving the 9th Dublin Fusiliers in the reserve line (Mauve Line). Relief completed at about 11.30am

13.6.1917:
On the night of 12th and 13th the battalion went out to dig two communication trenches, the right one starting from 0. 27 and 74 and running to 028 and 96. We had 30 casualties.

[In the war diary one of those shown as wounded was Pte Goodall, he died the following day]