Geoffrey Bould

Geoffrey Bould, who has died at 98, was a war veteran who became a journalist contributing to The Yorkshire Post and The Guardian and later helped to found a religious news magazine.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th May 2018, 12:08 BST

Born in Leeds and raised in Blackpool, he had joined the Post two years before the outbreak of war but was then recruited to the 7th Armoured Brigade – the Desert Rats – and saw service in North Africa, Burma and Italy.

After demob, he put his writing career on hold and became a civil servant, joining the Ministry of Pensions in Blackpool.

But he returned to journalism in 1982, producing articles and interviews about politics, poetry, religion, and his Yorkshire boyhood.

A Quaker, he went on to co-found and edit a Christian magazine, Interfaith News, which he edited from 1982 to 1989.

His wife, Kathleen, died in 2009, and he is survived by two sons and two grandchildren.