Name: Thelston Goodwin Regimental Number: 415742 Rank: Lance Corporal Service: 40th Battalion; 25th Battalion Date of Birth: April 11, 1897 Place of Birth: Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Enlistment: July 29, 1915 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot, Novba Scotia Address at Enlistment: Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 18 Height: 6 feet, 6¾ inches Complexion: Fair Eye Color: Blue Color Hair: Dark Brown Trade: Fisherman Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: James Goodwin (Father) Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS Discharged: February 11, 1919 (Halifax) on demobilization Date of Death: May 15, 1963 (aged 65) Argyle Sound, Yarmouth Co., NS Thelston Goodwin was the son of James Howard Goodwin abd Jerusha Jennie (Myers) Goodwin. Thelston Goodwin trained in Canada with the 40th Battalion from July 1915 through October 1915. He embarked Canada on October 18, 1915, sailing on the SS Saxonia from Quebec and arrived in England on October 28, 1915. On March 8, 1916 he embarked for France assigned to the 25th Battalion where he served until May 11, 1918. He returned to England suffering from tissue infection of the right axilla (space below the shoulder through which vessels and nerves enter and leave the upper arm) and was first hospitalized at the Whipps Cross War Hospital at Leytonstone. He was transferred to the Woodcote Park Military Convalescent Hospital at Epsom, Surrey, on June 14, 1918 and discharged on July 19, 1918. He was then posted to the 17th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott. He returned to Canada on January 9, 1919. On demobilization, Thelston returned to Argyle Sound. In 1922 he went to the United States and in 1930 he was living in Morris, New Jersey. He returned to Argyle Sound and on March 21, 1947 he married Wilhelmina Victoria Strickland (1904-1987) of Pubnico.

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