Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major G. S. Goodwin, Royal Army Medical Corps and Canadian Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. emblem (Capt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Major G. S. Goodwin, C.A.M.C.’, complete with brooch bar; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Major, C.A.M.C.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; together with a silver lapel badge, ‘British Medical Association, Winnipeg 1930’, good very fine and better (7) £380-420

Guy Stuart Goodwin was born on 17 February 1891. He qualified in medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia in 1912. He joined the Canadian Militia in November 1914 - serving with the 75th Lunenberg Regiment, 18th Infantry Brigade with the rank of Lieutenant. He was transferred to the R.A.M.C. in April 1915 and saw service in Gallipoli, May-December 1915. He then served in Mesopotamia until August 1916 and then in India until April 1918 when he was transferred to France. He remained there until demobilised in 1919. Promoted to Captain in April 1916, he relinquished his commission, retaining his rank in August 1919. For his wartime services he was mentioned in (General Sir Ian Hamilton’s) despatches (London Gazette 28 January 1916). After the war he served with the 10th Field Ambulance C.A.M.C., commanding the unit, 1932-37. Goodwin was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration and Medal in 1931 as a Major in the C.A.M.C. The 1935 Jubilee Medal roll lists him as being in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He practised in Moose Jaw from 1921 to 1949 when he retired and was the founder of the Associated Medical Clinic in that city. Retiring to Vancouver, he died there in 1951. With copied service papers and other research.