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A post-War M.B.E. pair awarded to Submarine officer Lieutenant-Commander C. A. Gooding,...
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A post-War M.B.E. pair awarded to Submarine officer Lieutenant-Commander C. A. Gooding, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E., (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (Sub. Lieut. C. A. Gooding. R.N.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- M.B.E. London Gazette 30 December 1989. David Anthony Gooding was born on 16 March 1943 and entered Britannia Naval College in September 1962, being commissioned Sub-Lieutenant the following year. He served in H.M.S. Ashanti during the operations in South Arabia from September 1965, before transferring to the 1st Submarine Squadron the following year. Promoted Lieutenant in June 1966, he served in H.M. Submarines Astute and Aeneas, before being promoted Lieutenant-Commander in June 1974. Loaned to the Imperial Iranian Navy as part of an exchange programme in 1975, on his return he held various staff jobs at the Ministry of Defence, as well as serving as the U.K. Naval Liaison Representative to SACLANT at Arlington, United States of America. Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year’s Honours List, he retired medically unfit in December 1991, and died on 4 November 2010. Sold with copied research.
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A post-War M.B.E. pair awarded to Submarine officer Lieutenant-Commander C. A. Gooding, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E., (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (Sub. Lieut. C. A. Gooding. R.N.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- M.B.E. London Gazette 30 December 1989. David Anthony Gooding was born on 16 March 1943 and entered Britannia Naval College in September 1962, being commissioned Sub-Lieutenant the following year. He served in H.M.S. Ashanti during the operations in South Arabia from September 1965, before transferring to the 1st Submarine Squadron the following year. Promoted Lieutenant in June 1966, he served in H.M. Submarines Astute and Aeneas, before being promoted Lieutenant-Commander in June 1974. Loaned to the Imperial Iranian Navy as part of an exchange programme in 1975, on his return he held various staff jobs at the Ministry of Defence, as well as serving as the U.K. Naval Liaison Representative to SACLANT at Arlington, United States of America. Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year’s Honours List, he retired medically unfit in December 1991, and died on 4 November 2010. Sold with copied research.
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