SCARR, Geoffrey Campbell
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Air Force - unspecified units |
| Born: | Manley, New South Wales, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Killara, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Grammar School, & Sydney University |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Injuries received in an air crash, Canadian General Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent, England, 18 November 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent, England M 721 |
| Memorials: | Killara St. Martin's Anglican Church Memorial Window, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Air Force , Flight Lieutenant | |
|---|---|---|
| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Air Force , Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force - unspecified units, No. 1 Observer School of Aerial Gunnery |
Help us honour Geoffrey Campbell Scarr's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Mrs. H. Scarr, of Springdale Rd., Killara, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell Scarr RAF who was killed in an aircraft accident in England in 1918.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 17th November......Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell Scarr was born in the district of Manly, NSW in 1892. He attended Sydney Grammar School the Sydney University.
Geoffrey Campbell Scarr left Australia in March 1917 and enlisted with the 12th Pioneers of the British Indian Army in Lahore, India. In June, 1917 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, trained in Egypt and served with the 23rd Squadron in Palestine. In February, 1918 he was sent to England as an instructor of aerial gunnery at New Romney in Kent. (information in this paragraph kindly provided by Dr Philip Creagh, BVSc. –Old Sydney Grammar Boy who has researched all from Sydney Grammar who were killed in WW1)
On 18th November, 1918 Bristol Fighter E2484 piloted by Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell Scarr & accompanied by Second Lieutenant Raymond Francis Allen, aged 20, as Observer, were part of a group of five planes flying formation to the East Kent Coast & back.
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell Scarr died at 6.45 pm on 18th November, 1918 at Canadian General Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent, England as a result of Shock from injuries received in an air crash at Folkestone Golf Links. Lieutenant Allen had been killed instantly.
A Court of Inquiry was held into the accident – “the cause of the accident was in our opinion due to the machine being stalled while endeavouring to make a forced landing from a low altitude.”
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell Scarr was buried in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent, England where 10 other WW1 Australians are buried.
Click images to start slideshow.