Drakeford David Goode Private 4457698
Personnel Entry
Name Drakeford David Goode
Army number 4457698
Rank Private.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born June 1919 - Willesden, London.
Age
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - date not yet known, but his Number suggests Summer 1939. Posted to the Infantry Training Centre, Brancepeth for Basic Training.
Company/Battery Not yet ascertained. It would appear that Private Drakeford died before he could be posted to a Battalion.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet confirmed.
Task or role Trainee infantryman.
Joined Brigade Not yet confirmed - unlikely to have been posted to a Unit by the time of his death.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known. Cause of his death not yet researched.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death 26/12/1939. Probate granted 4/3/1940. Buried Willesden New Cemetery, Section A, Grave 531. There is no headstone inscription.
Home address Father - Edward Percy Goode Drakeford (1877 - 1946). Mother - Edith Cosier (1879 - 1958). Lived at 67, St Gabriel's Road, Brondesbury, London NW3.
Source table
Private Drakeford's brother - 2nd Lt Drakeford (SSVC) - died in the evacuation of Singapore in 1942 - being left for dead on the launch "ELIZABETH" after an attack by a Japanese Destroyer in the Banka Straits.