Serjeant 2179. 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 21 August 1915. Born and enlisted Aylsham. No known grave, grave lost. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel 42 to 44.

Extract from St. John's Daily Star, 10 February 1916:

NFLD, SOLDIER DID PLUCKY ACT

Four Of Them Went Out Into No-Man's Land Took Identification Discs From Dead Comrade And Buried His Body - Were Complimented For Coolness Under Fire

“The two chief pests out here are the flies by day and the vermin by night” writes Corporal C. F. Garland, of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, from the Dardanelles, in a letter published in the Montreal Herald. “Our men were complimented for their coolness under fire. When we were up in the trenches we used to have listening patrols, covering parties and men working in the front of our trenches every night. You could hear ‘Johnny Turk’ talking quite plain. Johnny has geese, hens and dogs in his trenches and when the dogs are not howling the geese and hens arc kicking up a noise at night. Evidently Mr Turk fares sumptuously by way of bill of fare.”

“It's quite cold out here in the night time and, some days also the people of Newfoundland won't be astray if they send out some winter clothing, such as top shirts, socks and underclothing. It is a hard place out here to get anything new, and the most of us have on the same clothing that we landed in a month ago. We left our kit bags with all our clothing etc., on the beach when we landed and we haven't been able to get down to them since.”

“When we were up in the trenches I saw four of our chaps do a plucky thing. There was a dead soldier out in front of our trench who was killed a month or more ago. The four chaps crawled out in the daytime and dug a hole and buried him. They took his identification disc and pay book, etc., off him. He turned out to be a Sergeant Goulden of the Norfolks. The men made a plain wooden cross with his name, etc!. on it and placed it over the grave of the dead hero.”