Browsing through Catherine W. Reilly's wonderful "English Poetry of the First World War A Bibliography" the other evening, my eye caught the word "Liscard" which is a town on the Wirral Peninsula. WW1 poet, 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Geoffrey Nelson Wall was born in Liscard and his birth was registered in June 1897. He was the son of Arthur E. Wall formerly of Bromley, Kent and his wife Mary.
Geoffrey was educated at Sea Bank Road High School with Mr Wrigley. The family moved to Australia in 1907, travelling on the 'Moldavia'. Geoffrey went to Wesley College, Melbourne University. He returned to the UK at the outbreak of WW1 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. He trained at No 7 Training School in Netheravon, Wiltshire and was killed in a flying accident on 6th August 1917 at Netheravon.
Geoffrey Wall is commemorated at Raikes Lane Cemetery in Wallasey, Wirral, UK
His poetry is collected in two volumes - "Letters of an Airman" and "Songs of an Airman".
With grateful thanks to Yvon Davies and Les Highton via Facebook for their help in finding out more about Geoffrey.
If anyone has any further information about Geoffrey and a photograph, please get in touch as I would like to produce an exhibition panel about him. Thank you.
