GOODWIN Barry Laughton

The following report appears in Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Saturday 21st September 1940:
Capt. the Hon. Charles Lyttelton speaks for many Worcestershire folk in the following tribute in the “Times” to Flight-Lieut. H.M. Goodwin and Pilot-Officer Barry Goodwin, sons of Major and Mrs Laughton Goodwin, who have given their lives for their country: “May I be allowed to pay a most sincere tribute to two close neighbours and very dear friends who have lately given their lives for their country – one as the result of a flying accident, the other in aerial combat? The Prime minister has summed up in one immortal phrase the debt we all owe the R.A.F. Worcestershire people all know how worthy to represent their country in these deeds were ‘Mac’ and Barry Goodwin. These two brothers – inseparable now as ever – were the best that Worcestershire could give. They were as much a part of her as the Malvern Hills, and their memory will last as long, not in lifeless wood or stone, but quickened for ever in the hearts of those who were privileged to be their friends.”