Soldier. Born Sidney Frank Godley in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Fought with the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He was awarded the first Victoria Cross of WW1, and was also the first private soldier to receive this honour. This was for his act of gallantry in defending the Nimy railway bridge at the Battle of Mons in 1914. Died in Loughton, Essex.
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Sidney Godley
In later life he became a school caretaker in Tower Hamlets, which is the onl...
Pte Sidney Godley, 1889 - 1957, awarded the first V. C. of the great war 23 A...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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Arthur Edward Cutting was born in 1899 in Kensal Rise, Willesden, Middlesex (now Greater London), one of the eight children of William James Cutting (1865-1929) and Eleanor Harriet Cutting née West...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Member of the staff of A. W. Gamage Ltd and/or Benetfink & Co. Ltd. Killed in WW1.
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