Geoffrey Garnett HORSFALL

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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

World War 1 Service

8 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 217, 10th Infantry Battalion, Guildford, WA
8 Feb 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 217, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 217, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Fremantle
29 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 217, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli

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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

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