James Goodwill was born in 1900 in Hull to John and Rose Hannah Goodwill (nee Swinn). He joined the Lincolnshire Regiment at the start of 1916 and was sent to Flanders where he was killed on 22 March 1916 leaving a widowed mother and 3 siblings. His father, John, was a deckhand on the Manda and drowned off Douglas on 7 February 1916. I wonder if the news of his death reached James before he, himself, died. I feel very sorry for the devastaion felt by his mother at this time.

James Goodwill