T M Godfrey


	*Winifred*

Thomas Mason Godfrey was born in Birmingham in 1895. He attended Alcester Grammar School and enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment, Territorial Army, at Bournemouth in May 1911. He was posted to the 7th Battalion and between 1914 and 1916 served in India.

In 1916 Godfrey, known as Dan, joined the 15th Battalion and the following year was appointed to a Temporary Commission in the Rifle Brigade as 2nd Lieutenant. He served in France until 1918, and Army records note that ‘this officer was gassed on 27 May 1918 owing to his respirator being hit and rendered useless’. He served in Germany from 1918 to 1919.


*T M Godfrey*

Dan married Winifred Alice Beresford at Islington, North London, in 1926 and between the wars he ran a garage and worked as a watchmaker.

In 1942 he was appointed to an Emergency Commission in the General List Infantry and joined the 31st Middlesex Battalion, Home Guard, as Quarter-Master. In 1945 he was posted to 87 Prisoner of War Camp as Quarter-Master.

Dan and Winifred both later worked for the Inland Revenue at Hinchley Wood, Surrey, before moving to Hayling Island, Hampshire, in 1968 to be near their son Robert and his young family.

Dan died in June 1969, aged 74. Winifred passed away 11 years later at the age of 83.