Forename: Rupert Ewen
Surname: Goulding
Rank: Corporal
Regiment: Hampshire Regiment
Institution: St Paul’s Practising School
Rupert Ewen “Chuck” Goulding was born on 29 July 1918. He was the son of Burt and Laura Goulding and lived at The Croft, Swindon Road, then 71 Tennyson Road, St Marks, Cheltenham. Rupert was educated at St Pauls Practising School from September 1928 to August 1933 and on leaving worked in the kitchens at the Gaumont then later as a trainee at Cadena Café.
Conscripted since 1939, he went to North Africa at the beginning of 1943 with the 5th Battalion of The Royal Hampshire Regiment. Corporal Goulding was killed instantly while engaging with a German tank on 26 February 1943 as part of “Operation Ox Head”. He is commemorated on the Medjez-El-Bab Memorial. He left a widow and a two-year-old son.