Group Captain Harry King Goode, DSO, DFC, AFC (22 October 1892 – 21 August 1942) was an officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
He entered King Edward VI Free Grammar School in Nuneaton on 16 September 1907, and in 1912 was awarded a Cambridge local honours degree.
However, having spent time as a student teacher in Nuneaton and Rugby, he decided against a teaching career, and instead took a job at Alfred Herbert's making machine tools.
After a month's leave in England Goode returned to active duty in late September and shot down an LVG C north-east of Conegliano on the 29th.
On 22 October Goode and Captain Harold Hindle-James attacked a balloon south-west of Vazzolo, which burst into flames.
On his third patrol of the day Goode first took part in an attack on enemy troops moving east on the Vittorio–Cordignano road, and then on the aerodrome at San Giacomo, strafing parked aircraft and the hangars, before harassing horse transports and other targets.
Later in the day they bombed a group of horse transports and light guns on the Fontanafredda–Sacile road before landing at San Giacomo to inspect the wreckage.
[2] He was credited with eight enemy aircraft and seven balloons (more than any other RAF pilot on the Italian front[2]), for a total of fifteen aerial victories.
[2] Goode remained in service with the RAF following the end of the war, and was granted a permanent commission as a lieutenant on 1 August 1919.
45 Squadron RAF in Egypt in 1927 when he met Ena Marshall Scales, a teacher from Bosham, Hampshire, who was on a sight-seeing trip to the pyramids.
[2] On 29 December 1929 Goode was posted to the Station Headquarters at RAF North Weald, Essex,[14] and on 9 July 1931 to No.
502 was a "cadre squadron" which was composed of two flights; one of regular officers, the other of part-time civilian "special reserve" personnel .
The squadron operated as a night bombing unit and each flight was equipped with four Vickers Virginia heavy bombers and one Avro Tutor for flying training.
[2] Having twice extended his period of service[25][26] Goode finally resigned his commission on 15 December 1941,[27] and joined the Air Ministry's Accidents Investigation Branch.
120 Squadron aircraft had taken off from RAF Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, on a test flight in heavy mist and subsequently crashed into a hill, Big Trosk Mountain, near Carnlough with the loss of all aboard.