Geoffrey Cooper Malcolm
1892-1917
Father Nm: Charles Malcolm 1864–1910
BIRTH ABT 1864 • Leeds, Yorkshire, England
DEATH 18 JULY 1910
Mother Nm: Lucy Jane Brown 1869–1943
BIRTH ABT 1869 • Otley, Yorkshire, England
DEATH 5 MAY 1943 • Leeds
Marriage Dt: July 1913 • Middlesbrough, Yorkshire North Riding
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Spouse comments: Isabella BLINCOE [8692] 1893–1948
BIRTH 17 MAR 1893 • Billingham, Durham, England
DEATH SEP 1948 • Sunderland, Northumberland
Children.
Born 1892
23 MAR 1892 Otley, Yorkshire
1901 CENSUS
Otley
Charles Malcolm 37
Lucy Jane Malcolm 32
Geoffrey Cooper Malcolm 9
Constance M Malcolm 7
Christina Denison 23
1911 CENSUS
Otley
Name Age
Lucy Jane Malcolm 41
Geoffry Cooper Malcolm 19 Commercial Textiles
Constance May Malcolm 17
Edward Bailey Bennett 19
WW1
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GC Malcolm, Sergeant, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 235415, 2598, Act/2nd Lt 3 KOYLI King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Royal Flying Corps
1914-1916
- There is a medal index card record for Geoffrey. The year recorded for the record is 1914 suggesting in this year Geoffrey volunteered to join the Gloucester Hussars and that he served only in his home country and certainly given his 6 digit number with the Royal Glouc .Hussars as late as 1916 when the Regiment was renumbered.
Medal index card shows home service only, A sergenat with the Royal Gloucester Hussars, then Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as an acting 2nd Lieut and finally Royal Flying Corps at the same rank Note: Following the outbreak of the First World War, the regiment (Royal Gloucs. Hussars) mobilised on 4 August 1914 and joined the rest of the 1st South Midland Mounted Brigade at Warwick eight days later. By the end of the month, the brigade had assembled on the Berkshire Downs with the rest of the 2nd Mounted Division, which was subsequently stationed on home defence duties on the east coast of England
1917
Note: It was probably sometime in 1917 that Geoffrey was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps to train as a pilot. Given the rank of Acting 2nd Lt. he was sent to 198 Depot Squadron at Rochford. A Cadet Officer and still likely be in his Kings Own Yorkshire uniform but at the Rochford, Aerodrome required to wear the distinctive white banded cap to signal Pilot in training.
- Member of Number 198 Depot Squadron
- At some point in 1917, it would seem Geoffrey started to train flying the Avro 504.
From mid-1915 onward, the Avro 504 was withdrawn from operations in France and it became the standard training aircraft for the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). - 27 September. Fatal Accident Rochford. From Flight Magazine “Two pilots were killed as the result of a collision in midair at an Essex aerodrome on September 27th. At the inquest, it was stated that the machine containing the two officers who were killed – Lieut. A.S. Talbot, R.F.C., and Lieut. G. Malcolm, K.O.Y.L.I., and R.F.C. – was making a spiral descent, and the collision occurred about 600 ft. from the ground. Both machines came to earth with a crash, and the two officers were killed instantly. The pilot of the other machine had a thigh broken. A verdict of “Accidental Death” was returned.”Avro 504J B3111, 198 Depot Squadron, Rochford Midair collision, Rochford
- Lt Arthur Sydney Talbot (27) killed (Australian)
- 2Lt Geoffrey Cooper Malcolm (28) killed
- 2Lt John Fernley Dick injured in 2nd machine
Burial
St. Andrew’s Churchyard, Rochford.
Medals
None Awarded
After The War
- Isabel received widows pension and belongings of Geoffrey.
- 1924 Widow Isabel (Blincoe) remarries to Stanly M Hinton another WW1 veteran
Sources
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- Ancestry and BFA database
- Flight Magazine 1917.
Gallery
There are service records in the National archives for this person they can be viewed and download from their website https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Excerpt from “Flight” magazine – 1917