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Driver WILLIAM EDWARD GOFF

Service Number: T/14713315
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

718 Gen. Transport Coy.

Date of Death

Died 10 December 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GENT CITY CEMETERY

18. 7. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Edward Medal
  • Additional Citation note

    An extract from the "London Gazette," dated 2nd January, 1934, records the following:- "On the 16th October, 1933, Mr. A.R. Cooke, a farmer, of Pump Farm, Backford, Cheshire, was attacked by a bull in the yard behind his house. The farmer tried to hold the infuriated animal off, but became exhausted and was thrown to the ground and gored by the bull. Goff, who is employed by the farmer, is 16 years of age. He heard the farmer's cry for help and ran to his master's assistance armed with a pikel. Goff rushed at the bull and by thrusting the pikel several times into the animal's head succeeded in driving it off for a short distance, while the farmer managed to get into safety. The farmer was seriously injured, and but for the boy's intervention, would almost certainly have been gored to death."

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