Augustus David GEDDES
- Extended Description
- Colonel Augustus David GEDDES
Mentioned in Despatches
2nd Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 28 April 1915 aged 48.
Son of Col. John Geddes, 4 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham, husband of Vera Colville Goff (formerly Geddes), of 16 Lincoln House, Basil Street Chelsea London. Born Dover 6 June 1866, educated at Cheltenham College and Sandhurt Military College. Served through the South Africian War where he was severely wounded. Qualified as an intertepeter in Russian. Went to the Front 17 January 1915 and was killed 28 April 1915. He was the Brother of Brig.General John Gordon Geddes CB CMC Croix d'Officier Legion D'Honneur, Commander of the Crown Roumania who died 26 August 1919 aged 56 at Shore-on-sea and bured at the old church Shoreham-on-sea.
At rest at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Belgium
Commorated on a family headstone
Cheltenham Cemetery Gloucestershire.
