GOODSIR, David Brodie
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
Holding Operational Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards:
Educated at Kirkcaldy High School and George Watsons College, Edinburgh [1].
26.01.1945 commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant, Royal Marines [2].
04.1945 Temporary Second Lieutenant, RM Holding Commando [3].
1946 entered the Colonial Police Service, Burma [1]*.
09.06.1955 Deputy Superintendent, Federation of Malaya Police Force, awarded the Colonial Police Medal [4].
01.01.1964 Assistant Commissioner of Police, Malaysia, appointed O.B.E. (Civil Division) [5].
Sources
[1] Report in the Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 18 June 1955.
[2] London Gazette 37044, page 2108
[3] Navy Lists, Quarterly, April 1945, Volume 2, page 1164; and July 1945 Volume 2.
[4] London Gazette 40497, page 3294.
[5] London Gazette 43200, page 21.
*Notes
Report in the Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 20 November 1954 records that he also had a brief spell in the Edinburgh City Police before rejoining the Colonial Police Service.
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