Name
Horace Silvester Grimston
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1914
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Wiltshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY (N.Z.) MEMORIAL, POLYGON WOOD
XXII. C. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Individual plaque, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Horace was half brother to the above Francis Grimston and the younger son of the late Edward John Grimston and of Toonie Clara his second wife.
Wartime Service
His plaque in St Albans Abbey records that, Captain Horace Sylvester Grimston was in the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment.
He died on oct 21st 1914 in the defence of the trenches before Ypres and was distinguished by his unflinching gallantry, He was aged 22 when he died.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
