BORN INDIA, 01/08/1893. SON OF CHARLES STEWART MIDDLEMISS, CIE, FRS, (1859-1945) & MARTHA FRANCES WHEELER (1867-1931), OF SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIAN AND “AVIERMORE”, CROWBOROUGH, SUSSEX. (CWGC ADDRESS).
HIS FATHER WAS A BORN IN HULL AND WAS A DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER, IN INDIA. HIS GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH FINDLAYSON MIDDLEMISS, LIVED AT 12, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN INDIA AND MARRIED THERE.
GODFREY HAD TWO BROTHERS, HUGH AND GUY AND ONE SISTER, AILEEN FRANCES. HE WAS A STUDENT, AT ST JOHNS COLLEGE, LIVING IN LEATHERHEAD, (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED AT LONDON. JOINED THE 5TH RIFLE BRIGADE, LONDON REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED ON 18/06/1917, AGED 23. HE IS BURIED AT TANK CEMETERY, GUEMAPPE, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “FOR KING AND COUNTRY”
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S ST MARYS CHURCH, LOWGATE MEMORIAL, WITH HIS BROTHER, RIFLEMAN, GUY MIDDLEMISS, CEYLON PLANTERS RIFLE CORPS, KILLED AT ANZAC BEACH, GALLIPOLI, ON 06/05/1915, AGED 23.
