Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain A. P. Godman, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in Belgium on 25 May 1940, during the heavy fighting covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (2. Lieut. A. P. Godman, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal, together with named condolence slip and address label from card box of issue addressed to ‘Air Commodore A. L. Godman, C.M.G., D.S.O.’, extremely fine (3) £400-500

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1940.

Captain Arthur Peter Godman, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was killed in action in France on 25 May 1940. Son of Air Commodore Arthur Lowthian Godman, C.M.G., D.S.O., of Smeaton Manor, Northallerton, Yorkshire. He is commemorated by name in the Comines (Komen) Communal Cemetery, Belgium.