After Effects
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the first to mention the death, opening a Parliamentary debate hours later, stating that he wasn't certain it was a "first" female combat death for Canada, and that he would not release her name until her husband had been notified.
General (Ret'd) Richard Hillier, former chief of defence staff wrote in his autobiography `A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War`, that officials in the Prime Minister's Office ordered the military to hide the return to Canada of Captain Nichola Goddard because they did not want her flag-draped coffin seen on the news.
It was later announced that her husband Jason Beam would be the first widower to receive the Memorial Cross. The Memorial Cross (also known as the Silver Cross) has traditionally been presented to widows and mothers of Canadian war dead.
She was also posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on Oct 27, 2006
After Goddard's death, policies have changed on the traditions of presenting the Memorial Cross to widows or mothers of the ones killed. Now, members of the Canadian Forces are required to choose who will receive the Memorial Cross(es) (a maximum of three).
She was posthumously awarded the Sacrifice Medal on Monday, November 9, 2009. Sacrifice Medals are awarded to members of the Canadian Forces and those who work with them who have been wounded or killed by hostile action and to Canadian Forces members who died as a result of service.
There is a middle school in Calgary, Alberta named after her- Captain Nichola Goddard School.
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