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Lieutenant Charles Augustus GOODFELLOW VC |
| Born: | Poona, India - 27 November 1836 | 
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| Died: | Leamington, Warwickshire - 1 September 1915 | ||
| Burial details: | Leamington Spa Cemetery | ||
| Corps service: | Commissioned into the Bombay Engineers, transferred into the Royal Engineers in 1862. He served under Sir Robert Napier's command during the Abyssinian Expedition (1867-8) where he was awarded with a brevat majority. Promoted Lieutenant General in 1892. Retired as Lieutenant General CS Goodfellow VC CB |
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| VC awarded: | Won VC at Kathiawar, India, On 6 October 1859. (Waghers' Rebellion, India 1859) | ||
| VC unit: | Bombay Engineers (with 4 Company Bombay Sappers and Miners). | ||
| VC presented: | VC presented by Major General Green, commanding Mhow Division at Mhow, India on 11 September 1863. | ||
| VC citation: | For gallant conduct at the attack on the Fort of Beyt,
India, a soldier was shot under the walls in a sharp fire of matchlock.
Lieutenant Goodfellow carried away the body of the man who was then
dead, but whom he had at first thought was only wounded. (London Gazette: 16 April 1863) |
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| VC location: | Royal Engineers Museum | ||
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Additional material: SC Fenwick, FoREM Links to further reading:
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