Midshipman Denis Gerald Ambrose Goddard
Royal Navy. HMS Queen Mary
31/05/1916
1914-15 Star
Born at Barrackpore, India, on January 18th, 1898,
and educated at Mount St. Benedict, Gorey. He was the
son of Major (later Lt. Col.) Francis A. D'O Goddard
OBE, late of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and Evelyn
Maud Le Gallais (of Jersey)
Killed in Action, aged 18 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Monday 5 June
1916
Roll of Honour. Yet another name has to
be added to the long list of those connected with the
Island who made the supreme sacrifice during the naval
battle last week. Midshipman Denis Goddard, who was
18, was the eldest son of Colonel and the late Mrs Goddard
(nee Evelyn Le Gallais). He saw much fighting during
the war and was in action at the Persian Gulf, the Suez
Canal and was serving on HMS Ocean when she was mined
and sunk in the Dardanelles. He was then transferred
to HMS Lord Nelson and was in charge of a picket boat
during the landing of troops at Gallipoli. Whilst there
he broke his wrist and was granted long sick leave,
much of which he spent in Jersey, and he only joined
the ill-fated Queen Mary on 19 May. To the relatives
in Jersey we beg to tender our sincere condolences.
A total of 26 Jerseymen are believed to have lost their
lives in the Naval Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916
and on HMS Hampshire which sank on 6 June 1916 after
striking a mine off the Orkneys.
