Geoffrey Coles

Sport shooter
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSport shooter
PlacesUnited Kingdom
wasSports shooter
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth13 March 1871, Hastings
Death27 January 1916 (aged 44 years)
The details

Biography

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.

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