Other Information:Geoffrey was educated at Avoca School, Blackrock and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently gained the degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of war he was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and volunteered for service. He gained a commission at the rank of Lieutenant, in the R.A.M.C. on 16th August 1914, and was sent to Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, where he became attached to the Lahore Indian General Hospital, at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. He then joined the 26th Field Ambulance. On 20th May 1915, he was posted to serve as the Medical Officer for the 2nd Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment, and was killed by a shell, near Givenchy, whilst attending a case at the Regimental Aid Post. His Colonel wrote: “He was loyal and devoted to his profession and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely.” Geoffrey was the only son of Alfred George (Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland) and Marie M R Fleming of Beechfield, Blackrock, co Dublin.
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