Captain Claude John Dashwood GOLDIE MC
369th Battery, XV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery and General Staff

Date of birth: 29th December 1876
Date of death: 30th December 1956

Died aged 80
Unknown
Claude John Dashwood Goldie was born at St Ives in Huntingdonshire on the 29th of December 1876 the son of John Haviland Dashwood Goldie, Director of Watney’s Brewery, and Grace Miriam (nee Watson) Goldie of 26 The Boltons Kensington in London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School and at Eton College where he was in H. G. Wintle’s and the Reverend S.R. James Houses from April 1889 to April 1896. He went on to Trinity College Cambridge which he entered as a pensioner on the 30th of June 1896 and achieved a BA in 1900.

Although he didn’t row in the school eight at Eton he had the distinction of rowing for the Leander Club in his freshman year before getting his “Blue”. In all he rowed three times for Leander in the Grand Challenge Cup winning in 1898 and 1901. He also rowed for his college in the same event on three occasions winning in 1902. He won the Stewards Challenge Cup for Leander in 1898 and the “Visitors” for Trinity in 1900. He also rowed for his college winning the Silver Goblet in the coxless pairs with Graham M. Maitland at the Henley Regatta of 1900 and with Claude W.H. Taylor in 1904. He also rowed the head of the river for Third Trinity from 1901 to 1906; he won, the University pairs in 1898 and 1900, the Colquhoun Pairs in 1898 and the University fours every year from 1900 to 1905. He rowed for the Cambridge crew in the annual varsity boat race for the years 1898 and 1899 but in 1901 he was forbidden to row on the advice of his doctor. He was the Captain of Cambridge University Boat Club in 1899 and 1900 and later became President of the Leander Club.

On leaving university he became a wool broker. He was married at St Cuthbert’s Church at Sessay in Yorkshire to Bertha Mary (nee Dupuis) on the 7th of February 1905. They had four children the first was born and died in 1905 being unnamed, Elisabeth, born on the 17th of October 1907, Miriam, born on the 20th of November 1910, and John Barre Dupuis born on the 9th of November 1919. They lived the "The Nyth", Bourne End in Buckinghamshire.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of Officers for the Royal Field Artillery on the 13th of October 1915 and served for three years in France from the 13th of March 1916. He was posted to the 182nd (Howitzer) Brigade on the 18th of May 1916 and to 29th Divisional Artillery Headquarters as an Aide de Camp on the 24th of July 1916. He was posted to 1st Corps as an Aide de Camp on the 22nd of December 1916. He was appointed as a Staff Captain on the 13th of January 1917 and was promoted to the rank of temporary Captain while employed in that role. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of July 1917. He was posted to the Headquarters of 1st Army on the 2nd of October 1917.

He was awarded the Military Cross in the New Years Honours List of the 1st of January 1918 and was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches of the 8th of November 1918. He went on leave to England via Boulogne from the 19th of December 1918 to the 18th of January 1919. He relinquished the temporary rank of Captain, when he was demobilised at the Officers Dispersal Unit in London on the 28th of February 1919, and retired from the army with the rank of Captain on the 1st of April 1920.

After the war he returned to work as a wool broker and lived at "Hillside", St George’s Hill, Weybridge in Surrey. He was President of Walton Rowing Club and was a member of the University Club.

He died at Weybridge Hospital.
Went on to Eton College

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