George Goodman (GC)

Lieutenant-Commander George Herbert Goodman GC MBE (1900 - 1945)  of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve was awarded the George Cross for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he showed on 15 January 1942 in defusing an Italian circling torpedo.

15 January 1942
Goodman was the first person to defuse the Italian self-destructing torpedo which had beached itself east of Alexandria. He was assisted in this action by PO William B Filer RN and painter Archibald John Russell RN, both of whom received the George Medal.

Naval career
Goodman was attached to HMS Vernon, HMS President and HMS Nile (Alexandria) and rendered many unexploded devices safe during the war in Britain and North Africa.

George Cross citation
Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on 15 September 1942.

Death
Gooman died when a booby-trap exploded in a house in Rotterdam, in May 1945.