Name
Geoffrey Harry Verrall Bayfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/05/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Black Prince”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 11
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertingfordbury Village Memorial Church of St Mary and St John Church Roll of Honour, Hertingfordbury Birch Green Village Memorial Birch Green School Memorial
Pre War
Born 1893 in Brecknock, Breconshire son of Rev Matthew Albert and Helen Campbell Bayfield, rector of St Mary’s Church, Hertingfordbury, Herts. in 1911.
Wartime Service
Entered the Navy Lists on 15 Sep 1910 as Midshipman. Aboard H.M.S. London in the far East on 2 April 1911. Sub Lieutenant in 1913. Served in Dover Patrol 1915-16 in "Nubian" and "Mohawk”.
Killed in action at the Battle of Jutland when H.M.S. Black Prince was shelled and sunk by the German battleship Thuringen.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
