He had previously been awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958 for gallantry whilst serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Cyprus, for repeated acts of deliberate courage in the disarming of bombs and booby traps set by terrorists.
[2] Goad enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and worked his way up the ranks.
On the night of 29 August 1975, Joseph O'Connell and Eddie Butler, members of the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang placed a bomb in the doorway of a shoe shop in Kensington Church Street in London.
Police officers discovered the device in the doorway of a branch of K-Shoes and the area was cordoned-off.
[9] The four members of the IRA group were captured four months later at the conclusion of the Balcombe Street siege.