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Company Sergeant Major George Edward Geary

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Military service

Service number: 63395
Age: 32
Rank: Company Sergeant Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 4th Battalion
Birth: February 20, 1884 Bishop, Auckland, Durham, England
Enlistment: November 3, 1914 Calgary, Alberta
Death: July 8, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional citations

Military Cross (London Gazette No. 29713, dated 19-August-1916) "For conspicuous and consistent gallantry when in charge of battalion bombers and when leading patrols. On one occasion he took up a position 25 yards in front of our trenches in order the better to knock out the enemy, and succeeded in doing so, although himself wounded."

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 90 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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