Arthur Goschen

Major General Arthur Alec Goschen (6 January 1880 – 28 June 1975) was a British Army officer who served as an Area Commander during the Second World War.

Military career
Educated at Eton, Goschen was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1899. He served in the Second Boer War and was promoted Lieutenant, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in November 1900. He later served in the First World War as a Brigade Major for the Home Forces and later in France. After instructing at the Senior Officer School and then at the Staff College, Quetta, in India, he was appointed Garrison Commander and Commandant at the Royal Artillery Depot at Woolwich in 1929, Brigadier Royal Artillery at Aldershot Command in 1931 and Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1934. He retired in 1938 but was recalled as an Area Commander for the Chatham Area in 1939 at the start of the Second World War before retiring again in 1941.

In retirement he became a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire.

Family
In 1908 Goschen married Marjorie Mary Blacker; they had two sons and three daughters.