Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookord he didn't know the meaning of. As you know, he died at the head
of his men leading a counter-attack. It's but poor consolation, but I
am positive that of all deaths it is the one he would have chosen....
That was a fearful day, and no one can describe the horror of seeing 20
officers and well over 500 men fall in one Battn. in about 14 hours."
His elder brother, Capt. J. H. F. Grenfell, and twin cousins, Capt. F.
Grenfell, V.C., and Capt. R. N. Grenfell, were also killed in action,
and his yst. and only surviving brother, the Hon. Ivo G. W. Grenfell,
is now with the Coldstream Guards. His sister, the Hon. Monica
Grenfell, is a Red Cross Nurse in France.
[Illustration: =Hon. Gerald Wm. Grenfell.=]
=GRENFELL, HON. JULIAN HENRY FRANCIS=, Capt., 1st (Royal)
Dragoons, D.S.O., eldest _s._ and h. of William Henry, 1st Baron
Desborough, K.C.V.O., by his wife, Ethel Anne Priscilla, Lady of the
Bedchamber to H.M. the Queen, dau. of the Hon. Julian Henry Charles
Fane, and granddau. of John, 11th Earl of Westmorland; _b._ 4, St.
James's Square, London, 30 March, 1888; educ. Eton and Balliol College,
Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Dragoons, 15 Sept. 1909 (24 Aug. 1910);
and promoted Lieut. 6 Oct. 1911; temporary Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and
Capt. 31 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and
Flanders from 7 Oct. 1914; was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's
Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914-14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]
for gallant conduct in the field; was severely wounded in the head by
shrapnel, 13 May, while reconnoitring near Ypres, and died in hospital
at Boulogne, 26 May, 1915; _unm._ He had made a special study of
reconnaissance work, and was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 1 Jan.
1915] for having on 17 Nov. "succeeded in reaching a point behind the
enemy's trenches, and making an excellent reconnaissance, furnishing
early information of a pending attack of the enemy." A poem, "Into
Battle," written by him in the trenches appeared in "The Times," and of
it Sir W. Raleigh, Professor of English literature at Oxford, wrote: "I
don't know if you really know that Julian's poem is one of the swell
things in English literature. It is safe for ever, I know it by heart,
and I never learned it. It has that queer property which only the best
poems have, that a good many of the lines have more meaning than there
is any need for, so that new things keep on turning up in it." At Eton
he ran well in the steeplechase in 1905, and at Oxford rowed in the
college crew. In 1907 and 1908 he was three in the Balliol eight in
the Ladies Challenge Plate, and in the following year he was bow in
the Balliol four which won the Wyfolds at Henley, and rowed for the
O.U.B.C. coxswainless fours. He was a member of the Belsize Boxing Club
and proved himself a formidable opponent. His chief sport was shooting.
His next brother, Lieut. G. W. Grenfell, and his cousins, Capt. F.
Grenfell, V.C., and Capt. R. N. Grenfell, were also killed in action
(see their notices).
[Illustration: =Hon. Julian H. F. Grenfell.=]
=GRENFELL, RIVERSDALE NONUS ("RIVY")=, Capt. Buckinghamshire
Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), att. 9th Lancers, 9th and yst.
_s._ of the late Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of Wilton Park,
Beaconsfield, by his wife, Sophia, dau. of Vice-Admiral John Pascoe
Grenfell, Brazilian I.N., and nephew of Francis Wallace, 1st Baron
Grenfell, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Field-Marshal; _b._ Hatchlands,
Guildford, 4 Sept. 1880; educ. Eton; received a commission as Lieut.
in the Royal Bucks Hussars, 1 Sept. 1908, and was promoted Capt. Aug.
1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders
from 18 Aug., att. to the 9th Lancers, and was killed in action at
Vendresse during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; _unm._
He was one of the best known players in English polo. He was a member
of the Hurlingham Committee, which is the governing body of the game,
and was among the best Nos. 1 in English polo during the past decade.
He played twice in English teams that beat Ireland, and was No. 1
in the Roehampton side that won the Championship Cup in 1909, while
three years before he was one of the Freebooters who secured the
championship. In 1909 he organised an Old Etonians team, which played
a prominent part in London polo. With his twin brother, Francis,
he played in the final match for the House Football Cup in 1898,
when Durnford's won by a narrow margin. He was whip of the Beagles,
Francis being Master of the Beagles at Eton. He was Founder, Chairman
and Treasurer of the Islington branch of the Invalid Children's Aid
Association, and a Memorial Fund is being raised to endow this branch,
now called the Francis and Rivy Grenfell Branch. His twin brother and
his two cousins were also killed in action in the European War, while
his elder brother, Pascoe St. Leger, was killed in the Matabele War,
1896, and his seventh brother, Robert Septimus, Lieut. 12th Lancers,
was killed at Omdurman, 4 Sept. 1898.
[Illustration: =Riversdale N. Grenfell.=]
=MORGAN-GRENVILLE, THE HON. RICHARD GEORGE GRENVILLE=, Master
of Kinloss, Capt., 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._ of
the late Major Luis Ferdinand Courthope Morgan-Grenville, York and
Lancaster Regt., by his wife, Mary, 11th Baroness Kinloss, Lady of
the Crown of India, dau. of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd and last Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, 10th Lord Kinloss, P.C.; _b._ Chandos
House, London, 25 Sept. 1887; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the
1st Battn. Rifle Brigade, 24 Jan. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan.
1910, and Capt. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary
Force; was twice wounded, but each time recovered and returned to
the Front; was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now
Lord) French [8 Oct. 1914, and 10 Jan. 1915] for gallantry in the
field, and was recommended for the D.S.O., but was killed in action at
Ploegsteert, 19 Dec. 1914. He was _unm._, and was buried in the
wood there. His brother, Lieut. the Hon. Thomas G. B. Morgan-Grenville,
4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, is now (1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =R. G. G. Morgan-Grenville.=]
=GREY, GERALD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3266), S.S. 100998,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=GRIERSON, SIR JAMES MONCRIEFF, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G.=,
Lieut.-Gen., R.A., eldest _s._ of the late George Moncrieff
Grierson, of Glasgow, by his wife, Allison, dau. of George Lyon Walker,
of Garemount, Dumbartonshire; _b._ Glasgow, 27 Jan. 1859; educ.
Glasgow Academy, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted
Lieut., R.A., 9 Oct. 1877, and promoted Capt. 20 Jan. 1886; Major 11
Dec. 1895; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 12 Dec. 1895; Brevet Col. 1 March, 1900;
Col. 28 Oct. 1901; Major-Gen. 12 Feb. 1904, and Lieut.-Gen. 6 May,
1910; was D.A.Q.M.G., Indian Contingent, Expeditionary Force, Egypt, 9
Aug. to 17 Oct. 1882; on special service with the Expeditionary Force,
Suakim, 20 Feb. to 5 March, 1885; D.A.A. and |