Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War O.B.E. and Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Goodall, Leeds Home Guard, late H.A.C. Infantry and 24th/27th Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star (719 Pte. C. M. Goodall. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. C. M. Goodall); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £1200-1400

O.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1944: Lieutenant-Colonel, Leeds Home Guard.

M.C. London Gazette 4 October 1919: T/Capt. Charles Montague Goodall, North’d Fus., attd. 9th Bn. (Intell. Officer, 103rd Inf. Bde.).

‘On 31st October, near Anseghem, he was sent out to visit headquarters of battalions and find out the situation. He carried out a difficult and dangerous reconnaissance under machine-gun and sniping fire. The information he brought in was most valuable, and enabled dispositions to be made to cope with a difficult situation. He did good work.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 18 December 1917.

Charles Montague Goodall was born on 20 February 1892, and joined the Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry) on 1 January 1912. He disembarked in France on 18 September 1914, and was commissioned into the 24th/27th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish) on 16 April 1916.