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Brigadier Sir Geoffrey Syvester Peren

18/7/2020

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Brigadier Sir Geoffrey Syvester Peren died On This Day 19 July 1980.

He was born in Streatham in 1892 at Hitherfield Road and was baptised at St Peter's Leigham Court Road

An agricultural scientist, university professor, and agricultural college principal, as well as a soldier in the two world wars, serving in the Canadian, British, and New Zealand armies.
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He was knighted in 1959 for services to agriculture and as head of Massey Agricultural College NZ

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