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HORSFALL, Geoffrey Garnett

Service Number:	217
Enlisted:	8 December 1914, Guildford, WA
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Cletheroe, England, 1884
Home Town:	Broome, Broome, Western Australia
Schooling:	Tonbridge School, Kent, England
Occupation:	Pearler
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 29 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broome Roads Board WWI Roll of Honour, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA

Biography contributed

Geoffrey Garnett HORSFALL was born in Cletheroe, England in 1884

His parents were Alfred HORSFALL & Mary GARNETT who married in Cletheroe in 1883

He married Mary Frances LLOYD in Singapore in 1910

Geoffrey previously served in the Middlesex Regiment for 5 years before he enlisted to serve during WW1 after he arrived in Western Australia