GODWIN, John

Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
14 Commando
Service: 
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Honours & Awards: 
Born: 
Saturday, December 13, 1919
Died : 
Friday, February 2, 1945
Executed
Age: 
25
Lieutenant John Godwin, 14 Commando
Lieutenant John Godwin, a veteran of Operation Crackers * [view], was an Argentinian in the RNVR. Commanding Officer of the raiding party at Kopervik, Norway. After the raid he was taken prisoner, taken initially to Haugesund, later executed at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. He received a posthumous Mention in Despatches for great gallantry and inspiring example whilst a prisoner of war in German hands in Norway and at Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg, Germany, 1942-1945. Son of Charles Algernon and Eva Mary Godwin, of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
Sources
CWGC.
*No 14 Cdo War Diary Jan-Mar 1943.
National Archives file WO218/58.
London Gazette 37299, page 4954.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 

Ask Questions / Add Information / Add Photos

Use the Archive Forum for research enquiries, or to add information or photos. [register now]
Read some frequently asked questions here [FAQ's].
Contact the Archive via the [contact form].
 
All content is researched and administered by the Commando Veterans Archive.