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Lt. Geoffrey Phillip Legard
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
Lieutenant G.P. Legard went to Chartherhouse School in Surrey. His battalion, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, was part of 84 Brigade, 28th Division. On 8th May 1915 this formation took part in the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, an engagement that forms part of the Second Battle of Ypres, famous for the German gas attack on 22 April.
He was killed in action aged 22 years, and his body was never found.
He is commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Another of his brothers was killed in action, Captain G B Legard of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). He's commemorated at Cabaret-Rouge British Cememtery, Souchez.