Lt. R. Gerard Garvin, South Lancashire Regiment, WW1

Lieutenant Roland Gerard Garvin (1895 - 1916), known as Ged to his family, of the 7th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Eldest child and only son of the influential journalist, author and editor, James Louis Garvin who was editor of the Observer from 1908 to 1947 and of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ged was due to go up to Christ Church College, Oxford on a history scholarship, but joined up at the end of August 1914. He was killed in action on 23 July 1916, caught by machine-gun fire while leading his company against the strongly fortified German positions north of Bazentin-le-Petit. His body was never found. He is reported in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as having been killed the previous day

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