BORN HULL 15/03/1882. SON OF GEORGE & MARY J GOULD, OF 3 HEMBOROUGH BUILDINGS, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL, OF 3, DAVENPORT GROVE, HARROW STREET, HULL AND 52, ALICIA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES), HE RESIDED AT 4, CHRISTOPHER STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS IN 1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL (MM) FOR BRAVERY ON 22/07/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 35. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/06/1918. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL, WITH HIS BROTHER; JOHN GOULD, ROYAL NAVY, “HMS GOOD HOPE”, KILLED ON, 01/11/1914, AGED 28.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDWARD GOULD MM 11/1164. Born in Hull between 1882-1884, though I cannot confirm as there are three possibilities of being our man. What I do know is that he enlisted at Hull City Hall and joined the fledgling 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. He served in Egypt before heading for the trenches in March 1916. A veteran of the Somme and Oppy Wood and a member of ‘B’ Company, Edward had been awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery in the face of danger. He was killed in action on 12th April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive, and his body was never recovered. Edward Gould is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to those who lost their lives in that sector of the line but who have no known grave.
