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Memorial Panel - Little Tew, Oxfordshire, England
St John the Evangelist's Church




Captain Geoffrey Theodore Garratt

St John the Evangelist's Church

Reminders of the Garratt family are everywhere inside the church, in memorials, tombs, and stained glass. One of the Garratt memorials is to Captain Geoffrey Garratt, who served in the Indian Civil Service, acted as a war correspondent, a farmer, and a historian. He was a member of the Indian Cavalry in WWI, and was awarded an MBE for conspicuous gallantry in 1942, while he as serving with the Pioneer Corps. He died on duty at Pembroke Dock in 1942.
There is a memorial to Charles Eustace Garratt, who was born in Little Tew in 1861 and served in the Boer War, and later with the Red Cross in WWII. He died in 1921 in New York, and his family erected this monument to him in his birthplace.
The east window, which sheds such a colourful light around the dim church interior, was dedicated to Susan Garratt in 1872 by Rev Garratt, who also installed the south wall window in memory of his father John (d. 1856).


Memorial panel In proudly memory of
Captain Geoffrey
Theodore Garrat

Indian civil servant, farmer, historian and war correspondent. Born at Little Tew Grange 7 Nov 1888. Killed on duty at Pembroke Dock 28 April 1942. He served in the Indian Cavalry 1915 - 1918 and in the Pioneer Corps 1940 - 42. He was awarded the M. B. E. for conspicuous gallantry in 1942. A devoted friend to humanity in England, India, Spain, Ethopia and other lands.



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