Every Name a Story

G.M.G. Culley 1916
Rank : Captain

Geoffry Matthew George  Culley

Every Name a Story

In Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France is the Commonwealth War Grave of Captain Geoffry Matthew George serving with the 11th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment who died 15/09/1916.

Geoffry Culley was the youngest son of the late Matthew Culley of Coupland Castle, Northumberland, and the only child of his second wife, Eleanor, daughter of the late George Darling and sister of the late George Culley, C.B. of Fowberry, Northumberland, to which estate Geoffry Culley would have in time succeeded. He was educated at Cheltenham, and served for some years in the Durham Militia.

He went to the front in spring, 1915, with the 9th Battalion Scottish Rifles, and was badly wounded the following September. He went out again in June, having been then transferred to the West Kents. Captain Culley was well known in Northumberland and in the south-western counties, where he was immensely popular. He was a very keen soldier, and after recovering from his wounds moved every lever to get out again. He ended his life in the manner he himself would have wished.

Geoffry Culley married, in 1914, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Twynam, of Soberton, Hants, and leaves two sons, the younger having been born on September 27th.

Geoffry Matthew George Culley is remembered in Kirknewton on K15.01, K15.05 and K15.08 and in the Alnwick Gazette Almanack

First Name: Geoffry Matthew George

Last Name: Culley

Which War: First World War 1914-18

Died: 15/09/1916

Age: 33

Rank: Captain

Regiment: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Served in: Army

Unit/Ship: 11th Battalion

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