GEACH, Ernest

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Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
'3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PLY/X.2568
Born: 
Tuesday, November 16, 1920
Died : 
Tuesday, September 9, 1958
Died in service
Age: 
37
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Ford Park Cemetery Plymouth
Marine Ernest Geach died in a fall from a block at Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth. He had recently returned to Portsmouth after serving abroad with 3 Commando Brigade, RM. An inquest later returned a verdict that he had taken his own life.
 
Sources
AFM ROH.
Report in the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail published 10 September 1958.
Report on the inquest in the Portsmouth Evening News 13 September 1958.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
'Roll of Honour since 1946'
Archive pages : 
RM Commandos 1946 - present

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