Christian GOODMAN

TynesideZ/11358, b Lidget Green d. 29th October 1918 (aged 25)

Christian (aged 25) joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Signalman aboard the trawler H.M Thomas Cornwall in 1917. During a collision Christian was seriously wounded and succumbed to these wounds on 29th October 1918, just days before the armistice of 11th November.

The Thomas Cornwall was a steam trawler taken over by the Admiralty, whilst under constuction at Lobnitz & Co on the River Clyde, and was converted into an armed patrol vessel. The HMT THOMAS CORNWALL was based at Grimsby and was lost following a collision with an un-named vessel, during an East Coast patrol, off Filey Bay on 29/10/1918. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?65677

His elder brother Ernest, also perished in the war. Christian is, for some reason, not recorded on the Church memorial, but he is however remembered on the Victoria Park memorial.