Briggs-Gooderham E J R 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Irish Regiment Attd Machine Gun Corps

Briggs-Gooderham E J R 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Irish Regiment Attd Machine Gun Corps

2nd Lieut. the Reverend ERNEST JOHN ROBINSON BRIGGS GOODERHAM.

3rd Royal Irish Rifles, was the son of J. R. Briggs Gooderham, Esq., and nephew of the Rev. A. Gooderham, Vicar of Chillingham. He was born in 1889, and entered the School House in September, 1903. He left in July, 1908, for Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. (2nd Class Theological Tripos) in 1911. He was ordained Deacon in 1912, and was Curate of Christ Church, Crouch End. In April, 1915, he enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment, and he received his commission in the Royal Irish Rifles in that year. Whilst serving in France he was attached to the Machine Gun Corps, and he was killed in action on the 13th December, 1916.

Source : The War Record Of Old Dunelmians 1914-1919