Geoffrey Theodore Garratt MBE MA (1888 - 1942)

Born 7 Nov 1888 in The Grange, Little Tew, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Annie Beryl (Benthall) Garratt — married 1920 in Madeley, Shropshire, England

Died 28 Apr 1942 at age 53 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Biography

Geoffrey Garratt MBE MA is Notable.

Geoffrey was born in 1889. He was the son of Reverend Charles Foster Garratt and Agnes Mary Percival.

Geoffrey was educated at the Rugby School and Hertford College, Oxford University.

After his graduation he entered the British colonial service in 1912. From 1913 to 1923 he was used in the Indian Colonial Service (ICS), the British colonial administration in India (official name: assistant collr. and magistrate) (service in Bombay on November 15, 1923). His activity in India was interrupted by his participation in the First World War, during which he was deployed from 1916 to 1918 with the Indian Cavalry.

He married Annie Beryl Benthall in 1920 in Madeley, Shropshire, England.^[1]

They had 2 children.

He left the colonial service in 1923 in protest against the British colonial administration's spending policy.

Geoffrey Garratt MBE MA is an English Author.

Geoffrey was an Author who wrote a number of books. He was awarded an MBE.

At the outbreak of World War II, he reported to the British army. As was the case in the case of persons who were regarded as strongly left-wingers, he was credited with sympathies for the Russian revolution and the Soviet Union, as well as for non-British volunteers in the British army, was assigned to the Pioneer Corps.

Tragically he was killed on April 28, 1942 during an accident that occurred during a military training/demonstration in a cellar of one of Pembroke Barracks barracks. During an assembly of nineteen pioneers and engineers, there was an explosion of two mines that killed him and seventeen other people immediately, the nineteenth person died the next day of their injuries. Because of the censorship during the war, the political leadership was not reported in the press because of concern about the negative effects that the public would have on the war morale.

He was 53 years of age.

Burial

Pembroke Dock Military Cemetery, Llanion, Pembroke Dock, Wales. Sec. E. Coll. grave 16b.-16r.^[2]

Inscription:

MAJOR

G.T. GARRATT. MBE. MA.

PIONEER CORPS

28TH APRIL 1942, AGE 53

INDIAN CIVIL SERVANT.

AUTHOR. FARMER.

BELOVED FRIEND OF HUMANITY

IN MANY LANDS

Sources

1. ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:262D-XCL : 13 December 2014), Geoffrey T Garratt and null, 1920; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,”
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #126426285

• "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q26M-1QDG : 9 March 2017), Geoffrey Theodore Garratt, 1942.

See Also:

• Geoffrey Garratt on German Wikipedia
• Geoffrey Garratt on English Wikipedia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_Dock_Military_Cemetery
• https://www.geni.com/people/Major-Geoffery-Theodore-GARRATT-Author/6000000005437480146