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‘Bill Goodbody finds Peace’, North Africa, 1942
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1975-03-63-8-25

Description

Photograph: Bill Goodbody finds Peace. Shows a painted white grave marker in the desert. Marker inscribed, 'THY / WILL / BE DONE / CAPT. W. P. GOODBODY / 3. C. L. Y. / DIED MAY 29TH 1942 AGED 36 YEARS'. From a photograph album containing 183 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1941-1943. Captain William James Perry Goodbody (1906-1942), 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), died of wounds sustained during the German assault on the Gazala Line which began on 26 May 1942. Goodbody took part in an armoured engagement that helped stall the German outflanking move near Bir Hacheim. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his burial at Tobruk War Cemetery in Libya Photographs are of Africa and relate to 7th Armoured Division. With captions from a separate index volume. Associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943).

Events

Gazala, Battle of, 1942 (World War Two, North Africa 1940-1945)