Private B. Godby, of Kensington, is reported to have died of wounds received in the fighting in France.

WITH THE COLOURS. (1916, August 24). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved February 5, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74593899

Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Correspondence

Havre  6th Nov 1917
5th Australians   GODBY, B, 3473

D/W 26.7.17 Dat C/B

I knew Pte Bert Godby of A Co, 2nd Pltn, a Company Cook.  His number was about as stated.  he died of wounds at the CCS and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Warloy, and there is a cross on his grave.  The boys of the company were in the habit of frequently doing up the grave, and I think his relatives have been notified of the location.

Informant, Sergt H J Hewson 3860
5th Australians, A Co, 3rd Pltn
Australian Camp, Rouelles.
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This man was wounded at Pozieres on 36th July 1916 (not 1917)  He died at a DS of CCS, behind the lines.  I knew him well: we knew him as Bert.  I have seen his grave.  It is in a cemetery some miles behind Pozieres.  I am not positive but I think the grave is at Warloy.  I went down specially to see it.  There is a cross on it with his name on.  He came over from Australia in the 11th Rft with me and lived in one of the Melbourne suburbs.  He was a cook in A Co.

Reference:  L/Cpl G W Sexton, 3404, A Co, 26 Gen Hpl.
Etaples 13.11.17.
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He was in B Coy as a cook.  He was wounded at Pozieres on the morning of 26th July 1916.  I saw him carried away.  He was wounded badly in the body - cannot say what happened afterwards was told he died.  He was called Bert.

Inf Cpl W H Anderson 3689  A Coy, 5th Battn

3448  Sgt E F Adair states that this man is buried at Pozieres.  He left Australia with him with 11th Rft on Oct 11th 1915.

R C Wheeler
HMAT City of Poonah
5/15/19

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