Career
Goate was 22 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 9th Lancers, British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 6 March 1858 at the Capture of Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the Venture capital:
Despatch from Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, Knight Commander of the Bath, dated 8th April, 1858. He died aged 64 at 22 Leopold Street, Southsea, from cancer. Goat was buried in Highland Road Cemetery and the grave has been reused twice since.
There was no headstone marking his grave which is located in Plot East, Row 5, Grave 20, but a memorial stone was erected in October 2003.