Richard Elton Goodwin

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Elton Goodwin, (17 August 1908 – 28 October 1986) was a senior British Army officer. He served in the Second World War as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the campaign in Northwest Europe from June 1944 until May 1945, and later reached high office in the 1960s.

Military career Goodwin joined the British Army was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Suffolk Regiment in 1928. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 August 1931. He served in India and became aide-de-camp to the Governor of Madras in 1935. He was appointed GOC 1st (British) Corps within the British Army of the Rhine in 1963 and Military Secretary in 1966; he retired in 1969.