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Pte. Stanley Percival Goodall
British Army 1st/2nd Btn. London Regiment
from:35 St Marys Road, Harlesden
(d.26th Oct 1917)
Stanley Percival Goodall was the fifth child of Charles and Elizabeth Goodall, of 35 St Mary's Road, Willesden. The only one of their sons to be killed in the Great War. Four other brothers served. He was a single man, living with his parents, a travelling rep by trade. In his Will he states that he joined the 3rd London Volunteer Battalion of Royal Fusiliers in 1903, aged 16, did Field Camps at Salisbury Plain 1905, and Savoy 1906. Enlisted at Tufton Street, Westminster on 7 September 1914 in the 2nd/2nd London R.R.F., and transferred to the 1st/2nd on January 1917.
WW1 movements. 1/2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) August 1914 Tufton Street in Westminster. Part of 1st London Brigade, 1st London Division. Moved on mobilisation to guarding the Amesbury-Southampton docks railway. 4 September 1914 : sailed with Brigade from Southampton to Malta, arriving Valetta 14 September. 2 January 1915 : left Malta, arrived at Marseilles on 6 January. 21 February 1915 : joined the 17th Brigade in 6th Division. 14 October 1915 : transferred with the Brigade to 24th Division. 9 February 1916 : transferred to 169th Brigade in 56th (London) Division.
Stanley joined this unit in January 1917. From the date of his death (26th Oct 1917), he was probably killed at the Battle of Passchendaele during the 3rd Battle of Ypres. A battle fought in a sea of mud.
