Lives of the First World War

known 1920

At the time of Geoffrey Allfree’s death his wife, who was pregnant with their second child, was the sole beneficiary in his will. His body was never recovered – he is commemorated on both the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and the Birchington and Acol War Memorial in Kent. Mary Allfree, never remarried, lost her youngest child Rosemary in 1929, aged ten, and died in Paddington in 1969. Allfree’s eldest daughter inherited her father’s artistic flair and became a well known artist, illustrator and writer in her own right, both in England and is best remembered as Stephanie Godwin, she died in Woodstock, New York in 2006, having lived in America since 1948.

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