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Charles was born in Hull in 1892, one of at least five children born to Frank Goodeve and his wife Sarah Ann, who married at Hull, Holy Trinity in 1877. Frank was from Bitterne, Hampshire and had served in the Merchant Navy, but was a timber merchant at Hull docks. The family lived at 38 Kent Street, off Holderness Road. Charles was recorded as a sawmill labourer in the 1911 census. In 1914, he married Eveline Dunkley at Hull Registry Office, Evelyn was born in Hull in 1893. They moved to Beverley and lived at 124 Holme Church Lane, Charles had worked at Earles shipyard in Hull. The couple did not have any children.
Charles joined the army and served as a private in A Company of the 9th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, part of 11th Division. They sailed from Liverpool on 3 Jul 1915 for Gallipoli. The 9th landed at Suvla Bay on the mountainous peninsula on 6 Aug 1915. Dogged Turkish resistance brought heavy casualties, including the death of Charles in unknown circumstances on 9 Aug 1915, aged 23. His body was not recovered, and he is remembered on the Helles Memorial to the Missing.
He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and the 1915 Star. He is remembered on the Hengate Memorial (as C. A. “Goodene”), on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster and on the Holmechurch Lane Street Shrine.
Eveline Goodeve remarried in 1921, T H Baker, a railway fireman, she lived in Hull for a while but then moved back to Holme Church Lane in Beverley. She died in 1970. |