Anthony Frederick Halliday Godfrey
Person details
| Forename(s) | Anthony Frederick Halliday |
|---|---|
| Surname | Godfrey |
| Rank | Major |
| Regiment | Royal Artillery |
| Age | 38 |
| Death | Died on active service |
| Place of Death | Western Europe > France |
| Date of Death | 17/10/1939 |
| Year of Entry | 1915 |
| House Letter | C |
| School Notes | Heathcote Mathematical Scholar |
| Comments |
The first Radleian casualty Father of AJ Godfrey (C Social 1953) War Memorial Fund (1943) Ctte minutes 29.5.1946: 'Applications on behalf of thirteen boys were considered. Twelve of the candidates were sons of ORs who had been killed in the war and one a nephew - [due] 1953 Godfrey, AJ, 11th birthday 24 April 1951.' |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 2nd Survey Regiment |
| Prefect | School Prefect |
| Military Decorations | |
| Album Number | 22 |
| Battle | - |
| Previous Regiment | |
| Burial or Cemetery | France > Arleux-en-Gohelle |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | Woolwich, Royal Artillery 1921. Married |
| Prep School | |
| Prisoner of War | |
| Radlein Obituary |
March 3 1940. It is our sad task to record the first Radleian casualty-Major A. F. H. Godfrey, RA. Died on Active Service in France in 1939, Major Anthony Frederick Halliday Godfrey. He came to Radley (Barmby's) in 1915. He was a Prefect and a Heathcote Mathematical Scholar, and was in the Rugby XV in 1918. After leaving in 1919, he went to Woolwich and passed into the Royal Field Artillery in I921. He was promoted Captain in 1934 and Major in 1938. June 18 1940. Correspondence. DEAR SIR, One reads so often nowadays what a strange war this is, that I thought the circumstances of the receipt by me yesterday of your March 3rd edition of The Radleian, in which my name appears, might add colour to this statement. Your paper was brought by runner from the nearest post office, 24 miles away, to me, a Regular serving soldier, here in the heart of the forest in the centre of India, 145 miles from the nearest railway station, where I have temporarily laid aside my military duties, and am devoting myself to the defeat of a very different type of antagonist, which so far has completely got the better of me. The realities of war, however, were very forcibly brought home to me by the same paper, in which appeared the name of Radley's first casualty, Anthony Godfrey. my immediate contemporary and great rival for several terms in the Army Class, who followed me to the Shop, and was commissioned into the same regiment as myself. It seems sad, in this" strange" war, that he should have been one of the first casualties in the British Army. Yours etc., Quo FAS. |
| Service Number | 26247 |
| Place of Birth |
