Staniland G 2nd Lt 4th Lincolnshire Regiment
SECOND LIEUTENANT G. STANILAND
4TH BATTALION THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT, T.F.
GEOFFREY STANILAND was the younger son of Robert William Staniland, (O.R., 1855) Solicitor, of Boston, and of Kate his wife.
He entered the School in 1895, left in 1897, was articled to his father and eventually went into partnership with Messrs. Allisons, of Louth.
He obtained his first Commission in the 4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in August, 1914, and was subsequently gazetted to the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.
He was killed on April 13th, 1915, at Pond Farm, Lindenhoek, Belgium, by shrapnel, while trying to get his men out of a farmhouse. He was the last to leave the building, and was killed just as he was going out.
Age 34.
A Private in the Regiment wrote:-
“Had he thought of his own safety instead of that of his men, he would not have been hit. If he had not waited to make certain that the men were all out of the building, he would have been safe. He died doing his duty.”
He married Millicent, third daughter of Frederick John Leather, of Middleton Hall, Belford, Northumberland, and left two sons.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1