Name
Handley Carleton Grace
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/09/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Northamptonshire Regiment
A Coy. 6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KORTRIJK (ST. JAN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
B 25
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1892, in Blenheim, New Zealand, he was the son of George F Grace, Vicar of Stanstead Abbotts from 1909 -1927, and stepmother Catherine, he had a brother Harold, also born in New Zealand and they lived in the vicarage. Prior to this, in 1901, at the time of the census, Handley was living with his stepmother and brother in Thorpe St Matthew, Norwich, whilst his father was visiting a fellow clergyman in Walberswick, Suffolk. While at Cambridge University he joined the Public Schools Battalion and from there was recommended for a full commission.
Wartime Service
Commissioned as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant 08/09/1914 in A Company 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regt. Sent to France in July 1915. Promoted in the field to Captain. Wounded near Wyschaete on 11/08/1917 and captured. Was shot in back and lung, taken to the German Field Hospital No 281 and from there to Hospital No 33 near Kortrijk (Courtrai) where he died on 02/09/1917. His parents were advised that he had been taken prisoner and was in Limburg, Germany and it was not until 27/11/1917 did they receive a copy of his death certificate sent via the Red Cross from Germany.
Acknowledgments
Terry and Glenis Collins
