Lieut-Commander GEORGE HERBERT GOODMAN
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Vernon.
Date of Death
Died 31 May 1945
Age 44 years old
Buried or commemorated at
THE HAGUE (WESTDUIN) GENERAL CEMETERY
Allied Plot. Row 5. Grave 100.
Netherlands
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards George Cross, Member of the Order of the British Empire
- Additional Info Son of Herbert Mander Goodman and Agnes Christine Goodman; husband of Constance Bricout Goodman, of Bowdon, Cheshire. P.A.S.I.
- Additional Citation note
Lt. Goodman defused and stripped the only intact Italian self destroying Surface Torpedo of the same type that killed a disposal team from H.M.S. Medway only days earlier, Lt. Goodman also stripped and defused the first 'Sammy' mine to be recovered in the Eastern Mediterranean and worked on many other types of mine on numerous occasions.
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