Eric Neville Geijer

Eric Neville Geijer [a] MC FSA (1894–1941) was a decorated Guards officer, royal herald, and genealogist.

[1] On 26 November 1914 he was naturalized as a subject of the United Kingdom,[2] serving in the British Army during the First World War.

Initially a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment,[3] from February 1917 he was attached to the Grenadier Guards,[4] serving with distinction.

[5] Geijer was awarded the Military Cross in 1918, for leading a patrol that entered an enemy position under heavy machine-gun fire,[6] and briefly attained the rank of acting captain.

At the time of his death, his address was Little Bowstridge, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.