Name
Horace Septimus Grimley
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
07/09/1944
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Wireman
P/JX 231155
Royal Navy
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
N.W. Extn. Grave 410.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was P/JX 231155.
At the time of his death he was staying with Thomas M Gracie, another Naval rating, in a room at 43, Heathfield Ave, Hitchin. At 6.30am on the 7th September 1944. Gracie discovered that he was missing and went downstairs and found that he had gassed himself for no apparent reason. The Coroner's verdict was suicide due to coal gas poisoning whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed.
He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery in Grave N. W. 41 0.
His home was at 16, Twiss St. Princes Park, Liverpool.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Pictorial Newspaper dated 12th Sep 1944
