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In memory of:

Captain Nichola Kathleen Sarah Goddard

Military service

Service number: D48 045 301
Age: 26
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Division: 1st Regiment
Birth: May 2, 1980 Papua New Guinea
Death: May 17, 2006 Kandahar, Afghanistan

Burial/memorial information

Additional information

Daughter of Tim and Sally Goddard of Calgary, Alberta. Sister of Victoria and Kate. Wife of Jason Beam.

"She loved her job, loved what she did," her husband, Jason Beam said from their home in Shilo, Manitoba. "She was glad to be in Afghanistan." Captain Goddard was known as a reader and dog lover who volunteered with the Girl Guides. "She wanted to be remembered as a really, really good soldier, not as a female officer, a female soldier or a first of anything" shared her former supervisor, Major Anne Reiffenstein. Credit: The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 18, 2006.

In 2014, a new Canadian Coast Guard patrol vessel was named after Nichola Goddard. This particular group of vessels are described as "Hero Class."

Additional citations

Meritorious Service Medal, Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 219 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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