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Name: CARLYON, Geoffrey (Col.)
Nee: son of Horatio Carlyon
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1869 Cadwell, Torquay
Death Date: 12 May 1935 Ticehurst, Tunbridge Wells
First Date: 1920
Last Date: 1935
Profession: Military, settler
Area: Molo, 1930 Turi
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Alumni
War Service: 1st Lancs Regt 1890, served in S African War 1899-1900
School: Charterhouse and King's College Cambridge for one year then RMC Sandhurst
General Information:
Alumni - At Jubbulpore India till Mar 1903; at Shorncliffe, Aldershot and The Curragh 1903-12; retired 1912. In Northern Rhodesia 1912-14. Served in the Great War (Commanded 7th Batt. S. Lancs Regt 1914; in France 1915; Commander of Reserve Batt, Aldershot 1916-18; with the North Russian Expeditionary Force 1918; returned 1919; Lieut-Col). Settled in Kenya 1920. Died May 12 1935. Buried at Aldershot.
Gazette 11 Feb 1936 probate
Buried in Aldershot military cemetery