Charles Vere Godden (buried 1916)

Charles Vere Godden was born in Worthing on 11th May 1895 to John Newell Godden and his wife Bertha Lily White. He had 5 siblings: John, Eveline, Francis, Charles and Norah. He was employed as a domestic page boy before enlisting on 14th September 1914 in the llth Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment.

He died at the Somme on 13/11/1916 and was commemorated on the Thiepval monument in France. His older brother, Edgar , a private in the Sussex Regiment, died on 22/12/1917 of cancer.

Charles and Edgar are uncles to Alice Norah Godden who is buried in Heene Cemetery.