Geoffrey Nilsson

Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Burbank Nilsson was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Hartlepool, the son of Swedish-born timber merchant Adolf Emanuel and Evelyn Mary Nilsson (née Richardson), of Durham. The younger Nilsson worked as a clerk in an estate office. His father was appointed as a vice-consul, at Hartlepool, for Sweden and Norway, in 1896.The London Gazette (26772), p. 4889. 28 August 1896. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Nilsson died on 18 September 1918, in the Battle of Épehy, while serving with the 7th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment, attached from the Green Howards.A Memorial Roll of the Officers of Alexandra The Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment Who Died 1914-18, ww1-yorkshires.org.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
He is buried in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Nilsson, Geoffrey Burbank, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
Category:1894 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Swedish descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Second Lieutenants