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Recommendations for the MM 1939-90 are available online from the National Archives (irritating for me as "my" MM was awarded in WW1 and nothing survives at all!). http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

You might find more info by reading the unit's War Diary which will be at the National Archives (again I was unlucky, no mention of the soldier concerned); there might alo be a unit history published somewhere. The Gazette entry will tell you his unit.

You might also find something in official reports sent in. I have found a recommendation for a decoration in the offical report of Operation Dynamo and then got side-tracked because the file included all the recommendations for medals and Mentions - and correspondence deciding who was to be awarded what and why....a fascinating read! Realistically for thisor for the War Diary  you'd need to visit Kew in person or get a researcher to do it for you.

Thank you - Gentleman's Mag gives the marriage of John Scott Gould and Sophia Barrett at Taunton 14th Oct 1840.

Joshn Scott Gould's memorial in North Curry reads:  "He hath dispersed abroad and given to the poor" and the love of God and his Saviour governed all his actions which produced in him that kindness and gentleness of disposition with a humility of heart that made him beloved and respected by all who knew him.

But his dispersing to the poor left him plenty - Gentleman's Mag again: "He was a munificent benefactor to the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, as well as a liberal patron of various local charities in the neighbourhood: his immense wealth is estimated at nearly £500,000."

I have Sophia's Will and it really is a monster document: the marriage was childless so property is distributed all over.

So - just where did this immense wealth come from, I wonder? He had lands in Somerset, but how did the family get them? I'm wondering if this was from India - the Barretts had India connections and my family history suspicions are in action!

Just hoping thereis someone out there with some inside knowledge of the Gold family.....

Just to top up with  more info: I bumped into Henry when I saw he was in the probate index as executor for his sister Henrietta Casebow Barrett. It took me time to link him with the family: he was born 1863, his father died before the 1871 census when Henry was at boarding school in Bathwick near Bath; in 1881 he and Henrietta were enumerated together at home but their mother was away.
Henry's father was Thomas Barrett (1816-68), a doctor, Medical Register from 1859, address as 40 StJames's Sq., Bath; MRCS 1837, FRCS 1852, MD Aberdeen 1854, Apothecaries' Register 30 March1837. My elderly, possibly 19th-century, Barrett family tree gives his mother as "Miss Smith of Bath"; freebmd gives her Christian names as Anna Eliza. She was living in Alexandria Road, Clevedon, in  the 1871 Census as widow of physician with unmarried daughter Clara.
But I cannot find Henry Brydges Barrett or Elizabeth Harriette in the 1901 or 1911 census.....

Just seen this in the Nationa Archives catalogue:

Divorce Court File: 3848. Appellant: Eben James Locke. Respondent: Mary Ellen Locke. Co-respondent: Frank King. Type: Husband's petition for divorce [hd]. J 77/455/3848