#2256, Geoffrey Foster GRIFFITH
| Born | 1891 in London |
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| Died | 1917 in In the Third Battle of Passchendaele |
| Father | Walter Spencer Anderson GRIFFITH CBE MD (1854 - 1946) |
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| Mother | Mary Ann (Minnie) KINDER (1857 - 1915) |
Captain Griffith died aged twenty-six on 26th September in the Third Battle of Passchendaele.
At the time he was serving with the London Regiment of the 2nd Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles) and had been mentioned in Despatches.
He is remembered with honour on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Tyne Cot Memorial on Panel 151.
His letters from the front line and posthumously awarded medals are in the possession of his great niece Vanessa Anne Griffith.
Vanessa Griffith and Anthony Cobbold
August 2013.
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Born
Death of Mother, Mary Ann (Minnie) KINDER
Died 1917