Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookd with her men while she worked for them, she had the charm of good manners--those real good manners that come without teaching at the dictation of real good nature. She was buried in the cemetery at Asnieres-sur-Oise to the distant mutter of guns." [Illustration: =Mary S. Brown Gray.=] =GRAY, PHILIP=, Leading Cook's Mate, M. 1818, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GRAY, ROBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 1157, 24th Battn. 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Horace Frederick Gray, Chauffeur, by his wife, Annie Eliza (Goddingog, Llanfairfechan, N. Wales), dau. of Charles Henry Lowe; _b._ Rilton Mews, Brompton Road, London, 16 April, 1891; educ. Llanfairfechan National School; went to Australia 27 Aug. 1914; was a Valet and Footman; enlisted 15 April, 1915; left for Egypt 7 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 16 Sept. 1915; _unm._ =GRAY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7969, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th _s._ of the late Henry Gray, of 3, Queen's Road, Aberdeen, J.P., Merchant, by his wife, Helen Mackay, dau. of George Mackay, Aberdeen; _b._ Aberdeen, 1 Jan. 1882; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and University Art Classes; went to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1903, and afterwards settled at Vancouver, B.C., as a Real Estate Agent; enlisted in the C.E.F. on the outbreak of war; left Valcartier for England with the 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade Contingent; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by a bullet through the brain, 23 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =William Gray.=] =GRAY, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 426330, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of Thomas Gray, of Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada, by his wife, Margaret Helen, dau. of Joseph Moore, of Caulmet Island, Quebec; _b._ Thorne Centre, P. Quebec, 26 Jan. 1894; educ. Quebec; was a Farmer; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 46th Battn. at Regina, 26 Jan. 1915; left Camp Sewell, Manitoba, with the 200 men of the 46th Battn., sent as reinforcements 30 June; trained at Shorncliffe with the 32nd Battn.; went to France between 1-5 Sept., and was there drafted to the 10th Battn., and died in No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, at Bailleul, 1 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; _unm._ [Illustration: =William James Gray.=] =GRAY, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, No. 19749, 4th Battn. King's Liverpool Regt., _s._ of William Gray; _b._ Kirkdale, Liverpool, 3 Aug. 1879; educ. Ashfield Street Board School there; was a Carter; joined the 6th King's Liverpool Volunteer Regt. 12 July, 1897; volunteered for the South African War, 9 March 1900; served in that campaign one year and 79 days (medal with three clasps), invalided home; retired 20 Dec. 1902; on the outbreak of the European War re-enlisted 11 Sept. 1914, killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915. He _m._ at Liverpool, 8 Jan. 1907, Elizabeth (3, Penrose Street, Everton, Liverpool), dau. of James Thompson, and had issue three daus.: Florence, _b._ 28 Jan. 1910; Edith, _b._ 3 Feb. 1911; and Gladys, _b._ 20 Sept. 1915. =GRAZEBROOK, CHARLES ALVEREY=, Capt., 6th, att. 1st, Battn. The King's Royal Rifle Corps, 3rd _s._ of Francis Grazebrook, of Stourton Castle, Stafford, by his wife, Isabella Mary, dau. of George Grazebrook; _b._ Dudley, 5 Sept. 1887; educ. Marlborough College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 3rd K.R.C.C., 7 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911; joined his regiment at Crete, where he served for a year or so, then went with it to Malta, and India, where he was stationed at Dagshai till 1912, when he came home. He retired in the beginning of 1914, and joined the Special Reserve, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined and was promoted Captain, 14 Aug. 1914. He took out a draft to the 1st K.R.R.C., 10 Nov. 1914, and was in the North of France all the winter. He was reported wounded and missing, 10 March, 1915, and was later unofficially reported killed in action on that date. Ordered to charge the enemy trenches near Givenchy that day, "He led his men magnificently, they covered themselves with glory and their charge will always be remembered as one of the finest deeds of the regt. Everyone says they were magnificent," so wrote his Commanding Officer. He _m._ at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 18 April, 1912, Katherine Arthur Mary Violet, dau. of Arthur Percy Hickman, of Hagley, co. Worcester, and had a daughter, Diana Katherine Mary, _b._ 19 May, 1913. [Illustration: =Charles A. Grazebrook.=] =GREAR, JAMES=, Private, No. 637, 1st Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade Australian Expeditionary Force, 4th _s._ of the late John Grear, of the firm of John Milner & Co., Iron Merchants, Manchester, by his wife, Alice; _b._ Mobberley, Chester, 21 Nov. 1891; educ. Mobberley and Urmston Secondary Schools; went to Sydney, Australia, in 1911, and was a Farmer with his brothers; enlisted immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 10 May, 1915; _unm._ Four other brothers are (1916) on active service, two with the Australian Field Artillery, one in training with the Infantry Reserve, and the other as 1st Class Stoker, R.N. =GREATHEAD, CLARENCE ROYAL=, Private, No. 1850, 4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), Machine Gun Section, only _s._ of George William Greathead, of Cleadon, North Eastern Railway Official, by his wife, Ada, dau. of William Greig, of West Hartlepool; _b._ West Hartlepool, 5 June, 1897; educ. Henry Smith College there; was an apprentice with Messrs. Grabham & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914; went to France in April, and was killed in action near Ypres, at 5.30 a.m., 16 June, 1915, while in charge of a machine gun. Buried at Wieltge; _unm._ His officer wrote: "He was a brave, fearless soldier, and will be missed by his battalion. We had him carefully buried and a cross bearing his inscription marks the place." [Illustration: =Clarence Royal Greathead.=] =GREAVES, BENJAMIN HERBERT=, Private, No. 3024, 8th (Liverpool Irish) Battn. King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of (--) Greaves; _b._ 28 Dec. 1883; educ. Oxford; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war in Oct. 1914, went to France, and was killed in action, 16 June, 1915. He _m._ at Brounton Hill, Liverpool, 6 June, 1908, Constance (11, Woolman Road, Blackpool), dau. of (--), and had three children: Charles Walter, _b._ 18 Aug. 1909; Leslie Herbert, _b._ 14 Feb. 1915; and Dorothy Irene, _b._ 5 May, 1911. [Illustration: =Benjamin H. Greaves.=] =GREEN, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14516, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GREEN, ALBERT=, Private, No. G6084, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Rouen, 19 April, 1915, of wounds received in action. =GREEN, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. G. 695, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; kil |