Regimental Sergeant Major James Hudson Goldsmith
Staff - Heavy Artillery Brigade,
Royal Garrison Artillery
28/07/1916
Husband of Lilian Goldsmith of Fair View, Trinity,
Jersey.
Died of wounds, aged 37 years.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Tuesday 9 April 1918
Roll of Honour. Another well known soldier
who was taken prisoner at Kut el Amara has unfortunately
died whilst in the hands of the Turks, we refer to Regimental
Sergeant Major J H Goldsmith, a former member of the
RMIJ Permanent Staff, whose wife and three children
reside at Fair View, Trinity. The deceased soldier was
attached to the 86th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery and
was captured at the close of 1916 and no news had been
received from him for a considerable period. His wife
has, however, now received the tragic information that
he died at Islahgaa in Turkey. The late Regimental Sergeant
Major, who was in his 37th year, was a well known athlete
and had scores of friends and acquaintances in the Island
who will hear the above news with regret and much sympathy
will be felt for the widow and children.