Geoffrey Coles
Sport shooter
Intro | Sport shooter | |
Places | United Kingdom | |
was | Sports shooter | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 13 March 1871, Hastings | |
Death | 27 January 1916 (aged 44 years) |
Geoffrey Horsman Coles (13 March 1871 – 27 January 1916) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
In the 1908 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the team pistol event and was 11th in the individual pistol event.
Coles was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a private with the Royal Fusiliers near Festubert. He was buried at Brown's Road Military Cemetery nearby.