page_title: Geoffry Scoones
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Geoffry Scoones / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Battalion Training at Tucker's Town, Bermuda of the 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (part of the Bermuda Garrison) in 1904. Officers shown are: Second-Lieutenant Wilfred George Lucas, Lieutenant Cyril Henry Wickham, Major Fitzroy Maurice Favre Scoones, Second-Lieutenant George Ernest Hawes, Lieutenant Harry William Geddes Burnett Hitchcock, Second-Lieutenant Edward Græme Ozanne
context_page_description: General Sir Geoffry Allen Percival Scoones, KCB, KBE, CSI, DSO, MC was a senior officer in the Indian Army during the Second World War.
context_section_description: Scoones was born in Karachi, British India, the eldest son of Fitzmaurice Thomas Favre Scoones of the Royal Fusiliers and his wife, Florence Osborne, who was born in New South Wales, Australia. His younger brother was Sir Reginald "Cully" Scoones.
  In 1901 Scoones, with his father, his mother, and his brothers Thomas, Valentine,  and Reginald, lived in the parish of Heston, in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, at The Hermitage, Sutton Lane. His father was posted to the Bermuda Garrison with the 3rd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, arriving aboard the troopship Dominion at the start of December 1903, along with Major CJ Stanton, Lieutenant F Moore, and Second-Lieutenant George Ernest Hawes of the same battalion (the remainder of the battalion of sixteen officers, one warrant officer, and 937 non-commissioned officers and other ranks under Lieutenant-Colonel Gaisford, arrived separately on the troopship HMT Dunera from Egypt). The battalion was first posted to Boaz Island. His father was subsequently appointed Camp Commandant, Warwick Camp. The 3rd Battalion departed from the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, aboard the troopship Kensington on 13 October, 1905, for Aldershot. Scoones was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
caption: Major Fitzroy Maurice Favre Scoones (third from left) during 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers training at Tucker's Town, Bermuda, in 1904
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