Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Goodall, British Red Cross Society and Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (E. W. Goodall, B.R.C. & St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (E. W. Goodall); Belgium, King Albert Medal, unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (10) £340-380

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Edward Wilberforce Goodall was born in 1860. Was a student of medicine at Guy’s Hospital and gained the M.B. ,1885, M.D., 1886 and B.S., 1888. A specialist in infectious diseases. Served as Medical Superintendent of the Eastern Hospital at Homerton. Later at the North-Western Hospital at Hampstead where he remained until he retired in 1926. Also taught at the R.A.M. College at Millbank. Was an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.

As Medical Officer with the B.R.C.S., he entered France on 28 January 1915. Later ranked as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. Was in charge of the Grove Military Hospital at Tooting Graveney. For his wartime services he was awarded the O.B.E.

Latterly living in Hemingford Abbots, he died in 1938. With copied m.i.c. and obituary published in the B.M.J., 7 January 1939.