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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Captain Roger Philip Goad, GC, BEM, was an explosives officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Service who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 29 August 1975. He had previously been awarded the British Empire Medal. Following a telephone tip-off, police officers found a suspicious package placed in a shop doorway in Kensington Church Street in west London. A former British Army officer, Goad was the senior bomb disposal expert on the scene. Goad, a married man with two children, had been decorated for gallantry while serving in the Army. A bomb, fitted with an anti-handling device, had been placed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members. Goad attempted to defuse the bomb but it exploded, killing him instantly.