Private Papers of Lieutenant Colonel R B Goodden OBE

An extensive collection of his personal papers, such as correspondence, diaries (1916 - 1933 and 1939 - 1945), letters to his parents and his sister (1915 - 1926), and photographs, and official documents, such as his identity pass, maps giving the disposition of enemy forces in Macedonia, Monthly Reports, and war diaries, relating to his military career (1915 - 1945) and recording his service in France with HQ, 73rd Infantry Brigade and No 14 General Hospital in Wimereux, Boulogne (September 1915 - ?December 1915); as a Staff Captain on the AG & QMG's Staff of the British Adriatic Mission with the Royal Serbian Army in Corfu (January 1916 - June 1916); GSO3 (Liaison Officer with the Serbian Army in Macedonia) at GHQ, Salonika (June 1916 - August 1917, being Mentioned in Despatches in 1917); GSO3, GHQ, Irish Command, Dublin, Ireland (May 1918 - December 1918); GSO2, British Military Mission to Roumania (December 1918 - March 1920), including a visit to Southern Russia (September 1919); GSO2, British Military Mission to Baltic States (June 1920 - March 1922) and as Military Attache to Riga (Latvia), Kovno (Lithuania), Reval (Estonia) and Helsingfors (Finland) ( April 1923 - July 1924); Bucharest (Roumania) (1926 - 1930) and Helsinki, Finland (1939 - 1940); with much useful intelligence and operational material on the armed forces and politics of the Balkans, Finland and the Baltic States, and the Soviet Union.

An extensive collection of his personal papers, such as correspondence, diaries (1916 - 1933 and 1939 - 1945), letters to his parents and his sister (1915 - 1926), and photographs, and official documents, such as his identity pass, maps giving the disposition of enemy forces in Macedonia, Monthly Reports, and war diaries, relating to his military career (1915 - 1945) and recording his service in France with HQ, 73rd Infantry Brigade and No 14 General Hospital in Wimereux, Boulogne (September 1915 - ?December 1915); as a Staff Captain on the AG & QMG's Staff of the British Adriatic Mission with the Royal Serbian Army in Corfu (January 1916 - June 1916); GSO3 (Liaison Officer with the Serbian Army in Macedonia) at GHQ, Salonika (June 1916 - August 1917, being Mentioned in Despatches in 1917); GSO3, GHQ, Irish Command, Dublin, Ireland (May 1918 - December 1918); GSO2, British Military Mission to Roumania (December 1918 - March 1920), including a visit to Southern Russia (September 1919); GSO2, British Military Mission to Baltic States (June 1920 - March 1922) and as Military Attache to Riga (Latvia), Kovno (Lithuania), Reval (Estonia) and Helsingfors (Finland) ( April 1923 - July 1924); Bucharest (Roumania) (1926 - 1930) and Helsinki, Finland (1939 - 1940); with much useful intelligence and operational material on the armed forces and politics of the Balkans, Finland and the Baltic States, and the Soviet Union.

Cataloguer SNR

Catalogue date 2005-07-07