Name
Geoffrey Stephen Walley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/08/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
5th attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. B. 7.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 17 Apr 1892 at Kirkthorpe, Wakefield son of the Rev. Stephen Cawley and Mercy (May) Walley of Hardingham Rectory, Norfolk. Educated at Haileybury College 1905- 11 and Clare College, Cambridge, (B.A. Mathematics 1914). He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 15 Aug 1914 and Lieutenant in Nov 1914. Entered France on 26 Jan 1915. He was wounded at Richebourg on 25 Apr 1915 and again at Festubert on 9 May 1915 but returned to the front. He was killed in action while encouraging his men during a German counter attack.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
