Place VC Won South of Beaumont Hamel, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather No.POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 715 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Irish Rifles, 9th Battalion
Later
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill, London, England
Place Of Death South of Beaumont Hamel, Somme, France
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, 5 miles north east of Albert, Somme, France. (Location unknown, buried where he fell)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 2 July 1916
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Pier 15, Face A
Gazetted 9 September 1916
VC Presented 31 March 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his mother, Margaret Matilda
Memorials
P Named On Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
P Named On War Memorial, Limpsfield Village Stores, Limpsfield, Surrey
P Named On War Memorial, Churchyard, Limpsfield, Surrey
P Named On War Memorial, St Peters Church, Limpsfield, Surrey
P Named On War Memorial, Hazelwood School, Limpsfield, Surrey
P Named On War Memorial, School Chapel, Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire
Name On Regimental Memorial, St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
P Memorial, Outside British Legion, Portadown, Armagh, Northern Ireland
P Named On Memorial Stone, The Ulster Tower, Thiepval, Somme, France
By The Way…
His Father was a partner in Joseph Tetley & Co and he worked there for a while before the war
