Lieutenant Edward Geoffrey HOARE RN
Motor Boat Section, Royal Naval Air Service

Date of birth: 11th July 1880
Date of death: 25th September 1950

Died aged 70
Unknown
Edward Geoffrey Hoare was born at 3, Emperors Gate, Brompton in London on the 11th of July 1880 the son of Edward Arthur Hoare, a bank manager, and Louisa Emily (nee Hardcastle) Hoare of 4, Roland Gardens, 1, Emperors Gate, Ramsgate in Kent. He was christened at Hawkhurst in Kent on the 25th of August 1880.

He left Hazelwood School in July 1894 for Winchester College where he was in Hawkins' House from September 1894 to 1898. He went on to Trinity College Oxford from 1898 to 1899 and, on leaving university he went to work for Messrs Virtue, Lubbock and Co, stockbrokers. He left them in 1902 and joined the Bank of British North America in New York until 1903 when he returned to England to work in their London Branch. In 1904 he joined Lloyd's Bank at their Lombard Street branch and in 1906 he joined Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co of 67 Lombard Street, London EC.

He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service on the 25th of January 1915 and was posted for service with the Armoured Car Section. On the 9th of September 1915 he was posted to the Royal Naval Air Service Motor Boat Section where he joined the Motor Boat Dragonfly at Dover for a course of instruction on the 8th of December 1915. On the 20th of March 1916 he was posted to the shore establishment HMS Excellent for a gunnery course and on the 22nd of May 1916 he was posted to the Royal Naval Air Service depot ship HMS Hyacinth based at Tanganyika in East Africa. On the 22nd of April 1917 he was posted to Eastchurch to re-qualify for his gunnery course and on the 18th of June 1917 he was posted to the West Manston substation.

He was married at St James
Went on to Winchester College

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