Name
Charles Stuart Grinling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Marines
Chatham Bn., Royal Naval Division.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 2 to 7.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 1 Nov 1895 in St Catherine’s, Grantham, Lincolnshire son of Edward and Charlotte Sophia Grinling. Educated at Haileybury College 1910-14.
Wartime Service
Commissioned Probationary 2nd Lieutenant R.M. on 22 Aug 1914 and Temp Lieutenant on 27 Mar 1915. Platoon Commander “D” Coy. of Chatham Bn. Embarked with R.M. Brigade on the Cawdor Castle on 6 Feb 1915 heading for the eastern Mediterranean arriving in Malta on 14 Feb. After several expeditions to the Gallipoli peninsula they disembarked at Gaba Tepe on 28 Apr 1915. Lieut Grinling was killed in action at during the attack on Razor Back, Monash Valley, ANZAC.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
