Adolphe Anthony Goossens (29 April 1896 – 17 August 1916) was a horn player, a member of the famous Goossens musical family of Belgium origins but living in England from 1873.
[2] With his siblings, Adolphe studied at the Royal College of Music in London.
He spent a summer season at Torquay in a brass band conducted by Basil Cameron, and then joined the Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow under Emil Mlynarski.
[3] While in Glasgow he signed up to join the British Army (the Artists Rifles) on an impulse, and was quickly posted to France.
Commissioned in the field as a second lieutenant, he was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment and given command of a platoon.