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Remembering World War II
David King Goulding
F/40237
Private
North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
November 29, 1915
McNutt’s Island, Shelburne Co., NS
March 20, 1940
Aldershot, NS
Lockeport, Shelburne Co., NS
25
5 feet, 11 inches
Fair
Grey
Dark Brown
Single (at enlistment)
Labourer
United
James Goulding (Father) McNutt’s Island, Shelburne Co., NS
Barbara Lynette Goulding (Wife) Bournemouth, UK (January 8, 1943)
October 9, 1944
29
Adegem Canadian War Cemetery, Belgium
I. E. 11.
Commemorated on Page 319 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on July 6
David King Goulding was the son of James Andrew Goulding (1868) and Bertha Hilda (Snow) Goulding
(1890-1952) and husband of Barbara Lynette Goulding, of Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Before
his enlistment is was a fisherman working out of Lockeport.
Enlisting on March 20, 1940, he departed for overseas on July 18, 1941. He married Barbara Lynette
Redding of Bournemouth on December 15, 1942.
On June 6, 1944 he disembarked in France as part of the D-Day invasion. He received special mention
when, during the fierce fighting, he mounted the hulls of two Sherman tanks to rescue the
Commanders.
Private Goulding was killed in action during the battles for the Belgian Channel Ports.
David King Goulding (Goulden)
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