Guess who turns 9 today? Emma!! Hard to believe it's been 9 years since we had 1 more beer, and a game of ping pong, while Tanya was waiting in the Escort. Happy Birthday Emma! Emma goat and Emma chicken, and all the other Emma's wish you a Happy Birthday as well.
On another note, today in Horsham, England, their will be a rededication of a war memorial to honour my grandfather, and other alumni of Christ Hospital School, that died in World War II.
Reginald Goodday was the son of Leonard and Matilda Goodday; husband of Dorothy M. Goodday, of Rothesay. He attended C.H. Newgate Street from 1895 to 1902 – Ward IX – and on leaving emigrated to Canada, where his father had just found a job with the Canadian Pacific Railway. He served in the Great War, first in 56th Canadian Infantry Battalion, and then as a staff officer at Canadian Headquarters in London. When the war ended he returned to civil life as a mercantile broker, but remained a volunteer with the Militia throughout the inter-war yEars and in 1939 was appointed Commanding Officer of the St John Fusiliers, a machinegun battalion. During the war he was employed as Deputy Assistant Adjutant- and Quartermaster-General (NOTE 1) at Headquarters Number 7 Military District at St John, New Brunswick. He was in his uniform and at work in his office on 31 August 1945 when he suffered a heart attack and died.
