Richard Elton Goodwin

Lieutenant General Sir Richard (Elton) Goodwin KCB CBE DSO (1908–1986) was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1960s.

Military career
Goodwin was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in 1928. He served in India and became Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Madras in 1935.

He served in World War II as Second-in-Command of the 9th Bn Warwickshire Regiment from 1942 and then as Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Suffolk Regiment in 1943.

After the War he became a Brigade Commander in 1945 and then went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1946. He became a College Commander at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1947 and a Colonel on the General Staff at General Headquarters Far East Land Forces in 1949.

He was appointed Commandant at the School of Infantry in 1951 and Commander of 6th Infantry Brigade within British Army of the Rhine in 1954. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 49th Infantry Division and North Midland District in 1957 and General Officer Commanding East Africa Command in 1960. In this capacity he accelerated the commissioning of African officers.

He was appointed GOC 1st (British) Corps within British Army of the Rhine in 1963 and Military Secretary in 1966; he retired in 1969.