Researching Alice Violet Goodman

[Amanda Rader]

Hello there,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm in Canada and not familiar with the Q.M.A.A.C. (other than quick searches on the internet). I'm helping my cousin find her grandmother's war records. We found her medal record online which gives regimental number 7715. She served from 25.10.17 and was discharged 14.6.18 (medically unfit). She would have been pregnant at the time. She received the war badge. We don't know anything about her service - only that we stumbled across the medal record. 

Can anyone find anything else about her? (I didn't know if I was allowed to share the medal record here with other names listed but I do have it.)

I can tell you she was married to Louis Montague Goodman at the time - mother Maria Swift father Henry Shuttle. Her mother was living in Canada at the time as was her sister Ethel. Alice seemed to move around a lot during the war.

[alf mcm]

Hello Amanda,

Welcome to the forum.

  Unfortunately Alice’s service records have not survived. The record you have found is for the Silver War Badge. This was awarded to women from the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Q.M.A.A.C. {previously the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – W.A.A.C. until 9^th April 1918} who were discharged for medical reasons. The same badge was awarded to men.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/861938:2456?tid=&pid=&queryId=4eafae28-5608-49b2-917b-10fc6d89aea1&_phsrc=SIn11300&_phstart=successSource

  The only other record I can find for her is her Medal Index Card. You can download this free once you register at The National Archives. It doesn’t add anything to the record you already have.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6080789

  The record shows that Alice enrolled in the W.A.A.C. from 25^th October 1917 and was discharged from the Q.M.A.A.C. on 14^th June 1918 as being medically unfit. She never served overseas so she probably served in England, possibly near her home town. Her rank is not shown on the card but would have been ‘Worker’, the WAAC/QMAAC equivalent of ‘Private’ in the Army.

  Alice would probably not have been awarded the Silver War Badge if she was known to be pregnant, although the fact she was a married woman may have made a difference. She may have been discharged due to illness. There are family trees on Ancestry which state that George Goodman was born in Canada in 1918, he was actually born in England in the December quarter of 1918.

  Alice was in Canada by 1920, and her family is on the 1920 Census.

https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?DataSource=Genealogy%7CCensus&ApplicationCode=137&YearOfImmigration-slider=0&FirstName=alice&LastName=goodman&Age-slider=0&YearOfBirth-slider=0&

   This confirms George was born in England.

Regards,

Alf McM

[Amanda Rader]

9 hours ago, alf mcm said:

Hello Amanda,

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

  Unfortunately Alice’s service records have not survived. The record you have found is for the Silver War Badge. This was awarded to women from the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Q.M.A.A.C. {previously the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – W.A.A.C. until 9^th April 1918} who were discharged for medical reasons. The same badge was awarded to men.

 

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/861938:2456?tid=&pid=&queryId=4eafae28-5608-49b2-917b-10fc6d89aea1&_phsrc=SIn11300&_phstart=successSource

 

  The only other record I can find for her is her Medal Index Card. You can download this free once you register at The National Archives. It doesn’t add anything to the record you already have.

 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6080789

 

  The record shows that Alice enrolled in the W.A.A.C. from 25^th October 1917 and was discharged from the Q.M.A.A.C. on 14^th June 1918 as being medically unfit. She never served overseas so she probably served in England, possibly near her home town. Her rank is not shown on the card but would have been ‘Worker’, the WAAC/QMAAC equivalent of ‘Private’ in the Army.

 

  Alice would probably not have been awarded the Silver War Badge if she was known to be pregnant, although the fact she was a married woman may have made a difference. She may have been discharged due to illness. There are family trees on Ancestry which state that George Goodman was born in Canada in 1918, he was actually born in England in the December quarter of 1918.

 

  Alice was in Canada by 1920, and her family is on the 1920 Census.

 

https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?DataSource=Genealogy%7CCensus&ApplicationCode=137&YearOfImmigration-slider=0&FirstName=alice&LastName=goodman&Age-slider=0&YearOfBirth-slider=0&

 

   This confirms George was born in England.

 

Regards,

 

Alf McM

 

Thank you so much. It is appreciated.