Wing Commander H Goodman
Herbert Goodman
- Rank
- Wing Commander
- Squadron
- No 103 Squadron
- School
- Hilton College
- In the book
- Pages 31, 151
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Former Hilton College pupil Derek Heaton- Nicholls was a very early “Prisoner of War”, Noel Mudie Hall another former pupil was killed during the “Battle of Britain”, Herbert Mundy lost his life in a February 1941 flying training accident, Bishops educated Flight Lt Guest DFC and Squadron Leader JER Hayter DFC were shot down in separate incidents on October 4th 1943. Guest, flying a Coastal Command Liberator and Hayter a No 83 Squadron Lancaster. Wing Commander Herbert Goodman, Hall’s Hilton College contemporary shot down in a No 103 Squadron Lancaster in May 1944, was commanding the squadron at the time.
Against Unfavourable Odds
Hilton College educated Flight Lt Noel Mudie Hall AFC, a No 257 Squadron Hurricane pilot, also lost his life to Me 109’s over the Channel that day 6. The son of a Royal Navy Admiral, he was born in England in 1915 and graduated from RAF Cranwell in 1935, a year before his Hilton College contemporary Herbert Goodman.