Great Britain: WWI Death Penny / Memorial Plaque to Geoffrey John Childe

Great Britain: WWI Death Penny / Memorial Plaque to Geoffrey John Childe 

Geoffrey John Chillde served as a Rifleman initially with the 9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War. He later transferred to the 12th (The Rangers) Battalion, and was killed in action, aged 36, on 27 January 1917. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.