Geoffrey Dearmer

DEARMER, Geoffrey. b. London, 21 March 1893; d. Birchington, Kent, 18 August 1996. He was the son of Percy Dearmer* and his first wife, Mabel. After education at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the London Regiment during the Great War of 1914-1918, in which his younger brother Christopher was killed at Gallipoli, and during which his mother died. Geoffrey himself served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. From the Gallipoli experience came his best known war poem, ‘The Turkish Trench Dog’. He published two books of poems, Poems (1918) and The Day’s Delight (1923), and also plays and novels. Three of his hymns were in SofP: ‘There are a myriad means, O Lord’, on...