When Phyllis Godber was born on 13 June 1911, in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Arthur Godber, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth E. Dexter, was 27. She married Mr Harold Joseph Bailey in September 1934, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. She died in 2007, in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 96.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire):
most probably a nickname from Middle English god(e), gud(e) ‘good’ + b(i)er ‘beer’, a metonymic occupational name for a brewer or a nickname for a toper. Compare Goodall .
alternatively, perhaps a nickname from medieval catchphrase, either God be her ‘May God be here (i.e. in this house)’ or gōd be her ‘may good be here’. Such phrasal names were common in England in the Middle Ages, although most have now died out.
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