Lieutenant Geoffrey St George Shillington CATHER VC
9th (Service) Battalion (County Armagh) Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)

Date of birth: 11th October 1890
Date of death: 2nd July 1916

Killed in action aged 25
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 15A
Geoffrey St George Shillington Cather was born at Christchurch Road, Streatham Hill on the 11th of October 1890, the elder son of Robert Gabriel Cather, a tea merchant, and Margaret Matilda (nee Shillington) Cather of "Red Roofs", Limpsfield in Surrey, later of 35 Circus Road Mansions, St John’s Wood, London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School from September 1900 until April 1905. On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - "....goes to Rugby. He has been always prominent in the fencing school and a very useful actor".

He went on to Rugby School in May 1905 where he was in W. N. Wilson
Went on to Rugby School

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