Major-General Arthur Alec Goschen (6 January 1880 – 28 June 1975[2]) was a British Army officer who served as an Area Commander during the Second World War.

Wilhelm Heinrich married an English woman and had several children, including George, Charles Hermann, Henry, Alexander Heun[6] and Sir Edward Goschen.

[4] On 7 September 1889, the cutter of the schooner Corinne (owned by his uncle Charles Hermann Goschen) was sailing near The Needles, with Arthur,[9] his sister Eleanor,[9] and crew on board.

The mate of the Corinne, John James Smith Gawn[10] of Ryde, saved the two children but himself drowned.

[17] He later served in the First World War as a brigade major for the Home Forces and in France,[13] and was awarded bars to the Distinguished Service Order on 26 September 1917 and 26 July 1918.