Source: Via Mark Carmichael Excel spreadsheet dated September 2025 re. soldiers of the 116th Battalion that served with the 18th.
Family Search: When Major Henry Blakeley Goodings was born on 3 February 1899, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Goodings, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Myrtle Blakeley, was 22. He married Winifred Lillian Hare on 19 February 1923, in Port Credit, Mississauga, Peel, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1919 and lived in Port Colborne, Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1923 and Humberstone, Port Colborne, Humberstone, Welland, Ontario, Canada in 1931. In 1937, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as post master in Port Colborne, Niagara, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 July 1949, in Wainfleet, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Port Colborne, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
Farmer Dies As He Helps Battle Fire
PORT COLBORNE — Sparks from a tractor being tested after repairs at the farm of Major Harry B. Goodings, in Wainfleet Township, west of Port Colborne, shortly before noon yesterday cost the life of Major Goodings and almost added a second victim, Charles R. Ashenden, a friend, who was overcome by smoke and exertion in the bucket brigade organized to combat the flames which damaged only the hay mow.
Major Goodings, a veteran of two world wars, past president of the Canadian Corps Association here, and Postmaster at Port Colborne for the past 10 years, suffered a heart attack as he pumped water from the barn well for the bucket brigade and was pronounced dead by Dr. F. A. MacKenzie, who arrived on the scene with Port Colborne Fire Department’s mobile life saving unit.
Ashenden, who had been pouring water on the blaze reputedly ignited by the spark from the tractor exhaust, started to descend when Major Goodings collapsed, and had reached the hay mow in the barn when he himself dropped. He lay there until the Wainfleet Fire Department, responding to an alarm, made a check of the barn and found him unconscious.
The Port Colborne rescue squad used an inhalator on Ashenden and revived him quickly. Dr. MacKenzie decided he needed no hospitalization.
The fire occurred as Major Goodings, his son-in-law, Orlando Pine, of Fenwick, William Clark and Ashenden repaired the farm tractor and were testing it.
Major Goodings, a former Canadian National Railways employe here, was a veteran of the First World War. He served with the 2nd Canadian Armored Division in the Second World War and was the first civil administrator into Caen, France following its freeing, as administrator at Bayeux, France.
He was a charter and a life member, and one of the founders of the Canadian Corps Association branch in Port Colborne and took an active part in veterans’ affairs. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. He held the long service and efficiency medal of the Canadian Army.
Surviving are his wife, two sons, Blaine Harry Goodings and Wallace Henry Goodings, and a daughter, Mrs. Orlando Pine.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
Niagara Falls Review 18 July 1949. Page 9.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 