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Name: SHARLAND, Geoffrey Ferguson OBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: son of Ernest John Sharland
Birth Date: 22 July 1921 Nairobi
Death Date: 10 Mar 2020 Devon
Profession: Army officer
Married: In Staines 1944 Marjorie Edith Sutton b. 19.10.1921 Kingston, Surrey, d. 16 June 2013 Cheriton Bishop, Devon
Children: Richard (15.8.1952)
Book Reference: Kenton
School: Kenton College - left 1935 for Blundell's School; Hertford Coll. Oxford; Sandhurst
General Information:
His wife was an Oxford Hockey Blue and was Captain of tennis, hockey and squash at her college, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
He was captain of boats at Hertford Coll. Oxford. Then went to Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.