Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book_b._ Newport, Monmouth, 7 July, 1889; educ. Intermediate School there; obtained his commission in the 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914, joining it at Northampton and afterwards going to Cambridge. He was promoted Lieut., 23 Nov. 1914, and in Feb. 1915, was sent with his regt. to Flanders, and was killed in action at Frezenberg, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ The division in which the Monmouthshire Regt. was placed assisted very materially in defeating the furious attack of the German forces on 8 and 9 May, in which all battns. of the regt. suffered so heavily. Major W. S. Bridges, now Lieut.-Col., the senior officer left after the battle, wrote that he met his death whilst holding, with his company, a trench under the most terrific shell fire, and in a letter to his father, said: "I did not know him for long, only since my joining the battn., but long enough to have realised his value as an officer and that he had a high opinion of his sense of duty." Col. H. Worsley Gough, who was wounded early in the action, stated that he fell doing his duty very gallantly, and that he could not speak too highly of his work as an officer of his battn., and that his untimely death was a great loss to the regt. and was deeply deplored by all who were privileged to serve with him. [Illustration: =Francis Neville Groves.=] =GROVES, GEORGE=, Private, No. 9432, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of George Groves, Office Porter, H.M. Office of Works, Windsor Castle, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Deaton, of Eton; _b._ Clewer, near Windsor, 12 March, 1888; educ. Windsor National School; enlisted 22 Nov. 1904; served 10 years; went to France, 12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Petit Bois, near Kemmel, France, 14 Dec. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =George Groves.=] =GROVES, GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 211975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GRUBB, WALTER BOUSFIELD WATKINS=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., and Gunnery Lieut., _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Grubb, of Elsfield House, Hollingbourne, Kent, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Sara Mary, dau. of the late Rev. Henry George Watkins, Vicar of Potters Bar, Middlesex; _b._ Knockrobin, co. Wicklow, 1 July, 1879; educ. The Grange, Cowes (Rev. A. Watson), and H.M.S. Britannia, 1892-95, and appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Trafalgar, 1895, and promoted Sub-Lieut. July, 1898, Lieut. Jan. 1901, Gunnery Lieut. 1 Jan. 1907, and Lieut.-Commander, Jan. 1909. He was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy as gunnery officer, March, 1914, and was lost in the North Sea when that ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, 22 Sept. 1914. He had King Edward's Coronation medal. He _m._ at St. James' Church, Clapham Park, 22 April, 1914, Marguerite Evelina Fairlie, only child of Dr. J. J. McWhilter Dunbar, of Hedingham House, Clapham Common, S.W., and had a son, Walter Dunbar Watkins, _b._ 3 June, 1915. [Illustration: =Walter B. W. Grubb.=] =GRUCHY, ARTHUR GORDON=, B.A., Private, No. 74040, Machine Gun Section, 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of Charles Gruchy, of Jersey, now farming at Strassburg, Saskatchewan, Canada, formerly of the firm of Redfern's, of Paris, by his wife, Mary A..., dau. of (--) Hicks, of London; _b._ Asnières, Seine, France, 16 Jan. 1889; educ. first at Asnières, then in England, and in 1905 went to Canada with one of his brothers. He entered the University of Saskatchewan in 1912, and became a member of the affiliated Presbyterian College, taking the Arts course preparatory to his theological training. During the long summer vacations he performed valuable services on various mission fields, and he obtained his B.A. degree in May, 1915. He had enlisted in Oct. 1914, and left Canada with the second contingent, and was accidentally drowned, 7 July, 1915, while bathing near Shorncliffe, where his battn. was in training. Lieut. Manville, Commanding Officer, Machine Gun Section, wrote: "Your son, Sir, was a splendid soldier, and I had just some few days ago appointed him to the most important post on the section. I feel his death creates a vacancy that cannot be replaced, for his work and personality were such that he endeared himself to all of us." [Illustration: =Arthur Gordon Gruchy.=] =GRUNDY, GEOFFREY STEWART=, Private, No. 1362, No. 1 Coy. Honourable Artillery Coy., only _s._ of George Graham Stewart Grundy, of Whernside, Headingley, Leeds, Iron and Steel Merchant, by his wife, Joanna, only dau. of George Taylor, of Leeds and Ripon, and grandson of the late Edmund Grundy, of Bridge Hall, Bury; _b._ Leeds, co. York, 1 Dec. 1886; educ. Rugby, and on leaving there was articled to Messrs. Barr, Nelson & Co., Solicitors, of Leeds. He was admitted a Solicitor in Jan. 1911, and at the time war broke out was with Messrs. Spyer & Sons, Austin Friars, E.C. He immediately volunteered and joined the H.A.C., 6 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 11 April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the grounds of the Château Elzenwalle, Voormezeele. His Platoon Commander, Capt. M. M. Schiff, wrote: "He was a great favourite, as he was always so cheerful and bright, under the worst conditions. He was on guard at the time, in the trench, that is, standing with his head above the parapet, keeping a look-out against the Germans. Unfortunately, a shot caught him, and his death was practically instantaneous. He suffered no pain at all. He was taken down by the stretcher bearers, and was buried next evening in the grounds of a chateau, some distance behind the line"; and a comrade (Private M. Phillips, who was killed exactly one month later, 14 May): "We had a most terrible time on the above-mentioned night, the Huns mined a trench on our left, and that started it, rifles, machine guns, artillery, trench mortars and a few other atrocities, and for about three-quarters of an hour we were very lively. It died down after a bit; but, unfortunately, during that time poor old Grundy went under (my special chum, of whom I was very fond, and I have mentioned him many times to you in my letters); he was on the 'look-out' and took a bullet straight through the head, dying instantaneously; it was perfectly awful, as he was next to me in the trench, and was joking and laughing up to the very minute. He was such a topping good fellow." [Illustration: =Geoffrey Stewart Grundy.=] =GRUNDY, GEORGE EDWARD=, Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Rev. William Grundy, Headmaster of Malvern College, by his wife, Margaret (School House, Abingdon), dau. of Adam Mitchell, of Heathcot, Kincardineshire; _b._ School House, Warwick, 26 Feb. 1883. He was educ. at Malvern College, where he got his cricket colours. He won a Classical Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took a second class in Classical Moderations. He was captain of his College cricket and football elevens and represented the University at golf for three years, be |