Captain 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 Captain 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.
Captain 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
