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L/Sgt. George Penstone Gould
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Sonning, Oxfordshire
(d.28th Oct 1916)
George Gould was born in Holyport, Berkshire on 23rd May 1889. He was the son of a local policeman, Thomas Gould, and his wife Sarah. Prior to Holyport, Thomas had been the local policeman in Binfield, Berkshire. On 1st October 1910 George was appointed Police Constable 24 in the Berkshire Constabulary. At this time his father had retired from the Berkshire Constabulary, and the Gould family were living in 1 Market Place, Henley, Oxfordshire.
George Gould volunteered for military service in The Great War, but in order to join up he had to resign as a police constable, which he did on 1st of May 1915. George was appointed as a Private in the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 1st of May 1915. After basic training he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, in France on 5th of October 1915.
He was hit with a shell on 23rd of October 1916 and died on the 28th. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France. This memorial commemorates 72,191 men killed in Battles of The Somme.
