2nd Lt Mott G R

2nd Lt Geoffrey Mott was a keen sportsman served throughout the Boer War and later won distinction with the 6th South Lancs in the assault on Sari Bair Gallipolli in 1915
He survived to celebrate his 100th birthday with the regiment

Geoffrey Radcliffe Mott
Born 23rd March 1878 Bareilly, West Bengal, India
Son of Charles Augustus Mott and Constance Gertrude Hall Mott (nee Parlby) (Marriage Registered June Qtr 1876 Plympton St Mary, Cornwall, Devon)

Geoffrey has a MIC
Mott, Geoffrey Radcliffe
South Lancashire Regiment, Major
Rifle Brigade, Major

LG 1st November, 1907.

1st Volunteer Battalion The Prince of Wales's
Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment);
Captain G. R. Mott, The Prince of Wales's
Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), to
be Adjutant, vice Captain S. H. Skinner, The
Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lanca-
shire Regiment), who has vacated that ap-
pointment. Dated 1st November, 1907.