Brian Gooch

Colonel Brian Sherlock Gooch DSO TD JP (1 August 1904 – 15 April 1968) was a British Army officer of the Second World War.

He was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University.

[1] He saw active service in the Second World War, during which he was mentioned in dispatches and served in the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Gooch was Brevet-Colonel of the Suffolk Yeomany between 1944 and 1950, and in 1946 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

His eldest son, Arthur Gooch, succeeded to the family baronetcy in 2008.