Biography:
Godfrey Arthur Stanhope Mure was born 18 November 1880, the eldest son of Arthur Henry Mure, of Onslow Gardens, London and Georgina Frederica Mure (daughter of Captain George Frederick Dawson) and brother of James George Dawson Mure (B1897-1898).
Godfrey came to Winchester College in January 1894 from Reverend G.C. Carter’s school in Farnborough. He was in D House, Fearon's, under Mr Kensington. He was a member of Boat Club and coxed both the School IV and his House IV, and various other fours and pairs.
He left Winchester in the spring of 1900 for University College, Oxford, leaving two years later to enter the army and in 1901 he obtained his commission in 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He served in South Africa from 1901 to 1902. In 1905 he resigned his commission to enter the service of a Land Company in Egypt and is recorded as attending an Old Wykehamist dinner in Cairo in 1908. Three years later he was appointed Assistant District Commissioner in the East African Protectorate under the Colonial Office, where his skill in languages gained him a position in Jubaland (modern Somalia). It was not until some months after the outbreak of war that he was released for military service; he was then offered a command in the Arab Rifles, and took part in the campaign in German East Africa.
Godfrey was killed in action at Kofi on 3 January 1917, while proceeding with his company to join a column at Mkamba, some sixty miles southwest of Dar-es-Salaam. The detachment was heavily attacked and as he went to the assistance of a brother officer who had fallen wounded, he was himself shot dead. He was thirty-six years old and is buried in grave XI.B.1 of the Dar-es-Salaam (Upanga Road) Cemetery.