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