The next year he took part in operations on the Douro and in the advance to Porto, then marched with his battalion to Gibraltar and later to Tarifa.

He fought at the defence of Tarifa in 1811, was severely wounded at the Battle of Barrosa on 5 March 1811, and ended the war as a brevet Major and a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

In the second half of 1824 he was part of an expeditionary force which conquered Martaban, and following that Godwin saw active service in all battles of the First Anglo-Burmese War up to the Treaty of Yandaboo of 1826.

He wrote the next day to the secretary of Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India, I have the honour to state, for the information of the Gov.-Gen. in Council, that Pegu was captured yesterday.

In June last I was induced, by strong representations from various sources, to send a small force to drive out some Burmese from Pegu...

However, on 26 October 1853, after a brief illness, he died at Simla, while staying with Sir William Gomm, the Commander-in-Chief, India, with whom he had served in the 9th Foot.

After Godwin's death, news came from London that he had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and as colonel of the 20th Foot.

[7][8] Maria Elizabeth's eldest son, Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, retired from the army as a lieutenant-colonel in 1877 after service on the Trigonometrical Survey of India and was a notable geologist.