Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Pioneer F. Goodinson, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds received at Arras on 10 April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (144653 Pnr. F. Goodinson. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (Fred Goodinson) extremely fine (3) £80-£100

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Fred Goodlinson was born at Nether Hallam in Yorkshire on Christmas Day 1894 and enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a Pioneer on the outbreak of war. Posted to 69 Field Company, R.E., he was embarked for France in June 1915, where his unit was engaged on the Somme in July 1916, in addition to the offensives at Pozieres in September and Le Transloy in October. But his luck ran out in the battle of Arras in the following year, and he died of wounds at 8th Casualty Clearing Station at Agnez-les-Duisans on 10 April 1917.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.