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| Birth Date: | 19 February 1894 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Woking, Surrey, Great Britain | ||||||||||
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Geoffrey Holmes (19 February 1894, Toronto - 7 May 1964, Woking)[1] was a British ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was a member of the British ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal.[2]
Holmes attended the Royal Military College of Canada, graduating after taking a break to serve in the British Army in World War I. He returned to England, where he captained the Army's ice hockey team. He went on to become a pioneer missionary in East Africa, running an Anglican mission in Rwanda for several years.[3] He was later ordained as a vicar. He was awarded the Military Cross for his service in 1918.[4]