Name
Geoffrey Dyett Abbott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1914
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Connaught Rangers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE
V. B. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 12 Oct 1891 and baptised on 7 Nov 1891 in Srinigar, Kashmir, India son of Col. Frank and Elizabeth Lucy Maud (Berkeley) Abbott later of 6 Pall Mall, London. Educated at the United Services College 1903-05 Haileybury College 1905-06 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned on 4 Mar 1911, 2nd Lieutenant Connaught Rangers and promoted to Lieutenant 9 Jun 1914.
Wartime Service
He served in India and then in France and was killed in action at Laventie.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
