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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 744

A Group of Four to Major L. Goodeve, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Who Was Shot Through the Heart by a German Sniper, 26th August 1915 Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902, lugs removed from top clasp (2/Lieut: L. Goodeve. 2/Rl: Scots Fus:); 1914-15 Star (Major L Goodeve. R. Sc. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (Major L. Goodeve), edge bruise to last, otherwise good very fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Lionel Goodeve´, this in original card box of issue (4) Estimate £ 360-380 Major Lionel Goodeve, born at Hampnett Rectory, Northleach, Gloucestershire, 1881; educated at Cheltenham College and R.M.C. Sandhurst; commissioned Second Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 8.5.1901; Lieutenant 18.4.1905 and transferred to 1st Battalion with whom he served in Allahabad, Bareilly in Burma and the Andaman Islands; Captain 23.2.1913; detailed to help with the raising of new battalions at the start of the Great War; he was promoted Major, April 1915, and posted to the 6th (Service) Battalion which had been raised at Ayr, and he served in the French Theatre of War with them from May 1915 until 26.8.1915 when, ´he was shot through the heart [by a sniper] at 1am this morning whilst superintending a working party, between our own front lines and the German front lines. I need hardly say how much this tragic end is regretted by all ranks, he was loved by his company and extremely popular with all ranks. I have known him myself ever since he joined the regiment, and always found him a good sportsman and first-class soldier. He will be a very great loss to the battalion.´ (Colonel Northey, O.C. 6th R. Sco. Fus., refers). Goodeve is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery.

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