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Dun. From then on, by slight mispronunciation of his name, we called him
‘Brute’ - a totally untrue schoolboy-type description if ever there was one.
In late 1945 he was sent to the 4th Battalion in French Indo-China, now
known as Vietnam, and while there he took part in an operation upriver
from Saigon to root out Annamite rebels. He then went with the Battalion
to North Borneo where he was QM and later a company commander as
well as PRI and PMC. Brute led a party in the ascent of Mount Kinabalu
and captained the Battalion football team in 1946 and 1947. He returned
to India with the 4 th Battalion and remained with it in Dinapore and
Calcutta from September 1946 to November 1947.
After being demobilized in January 1948, Geoffrey worked in the City of
London for a small, family- owned shipping company based there. During
the I 970s and 80s he bought and sold small to medium sized merchant
ships for which he visited maritime centres in Germany, Greece and Hong
Kong to arrange vessel deliveries, besides doing business in many ports
around Britain. In 1989, when the company needed another offshore
Director, Geoffrey moved back to Guernsey from which he had been
absent for 51 years. In Guernsey, with his own company, he acted as
Agent for the Group until he retired in January 2014. He was a member of
the Regimental Association/The Sirmoor Club from its inception until his
death.
In 1950 Geoffrey married Miss Denise Lowen. Their only son, John,
married Miss Sarah Lynch-Garbett whose father served in the 3rd
Battalion 1st King George V’s Own Gurkha Rifles in French lndo-China. We
send our sympathy to Denise and John and Sarah and their family.
DRW
Colonel Terence Arthur Cave CBE
Terry Cave, who was born in Aldershot on 25 September 1923 while his
father was serving there with The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, died on
21 June 2015 aged 91.
Having won a scholarship to Stonyhurst, Terry excelled there at sport and
became Captain of Rugby, Cricket and Boxing, and Captain of the Catholic
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