Frederick George Goodyear worked for the Sun Life Assurance Society in London. He enlisted as a private in the Heavy Artillery Corps on the outbreak of war and served in France from September 1914. He returned to England in October 1915 and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the London Regiment. In June 1916 he was sent to Salonica where he was awarded the Military Cross, gazetted 17 April 1917: “for conspicuous gallantry during a raid. He rushed the enemy trenches and pursued a party of the enemy into a swamp, where he effected the capture of six prisoners.” In June 1917 he was transferred to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and died of wounds received in action in Palestine while serving with the London regiment 24th (County of London) Battalion (The Queens). He was 24.

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