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Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat is a heritage-listed memorial at 103 Stanley Terrace, Taringa, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by the Wells Family in honour of their son Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells. It was built some time after August 1941 by Wells Family. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. == History == Geoffrey Lloyd Wells was born on 26 June 1915 at Wallingford, Taringa, the son of Henry Charles Wells and his wife Elsie Irene (née Lloyd).〔Queensland Registrar-General, Index of Deaths 1942/SS340〕 During World War II he enlisted in Brisbane in the Royal Australian Air Force. Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells was shot down over in a Wellington X9700 over Roggel, the Netherlands on 17 August 1941 during active service. He was buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery near the town of Nijmegen located in a woodland area known as Jonkers Bosch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2647097/WELLS,%20GEOFFREY%20LLOYD )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2062100/JONKERBOS%20WAR%20CEMETERY )〕 This stone seat, which is set into a stone fence along Stanley Terrace, was constructed by his family as a memorial to him. The seat was erected by his family in the corner of their property, as a memorial and for public use.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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