| Name |
The Hon Julian Henry Francis GRENFELL DSO |
| Rank/Number |
Captain |
| Regiment |
1st (Royal) Dragoons |
| Enlisted |
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| Age/Date of death |
27 26 May 1915 |
| How died/Theatre of war |
Died of wounds France & Flanders |
| Last known address |
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| Cemetery |
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France |
| Grave or Memorial Reference |
II.A.18 |
| Location of memorial |
Taplow St Nicolas |
| Date/Place of birth |
30 Mar 1888 St George's, London |
| Date/Place of baptism |
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| Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
boxer & cavalryman |
| Parents |
Lord & Lady Desborough |
| Parent's occupation |
magistrate living on own means |
| Parents' Address (last known) |
Taplow Court, Taplow & Panshanger, Hertford |
| Wife |
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| Wife's Address (last known) |
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| Notes |
War Poet, wrote 'Into Battle'. Mentioned in Despatches twice.Commemorated in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey. Parents names William Henry Grenfell & Ethel Priscilla Fane. Eton College; Balliol, Oxford. Brother of Gerald William Grenfell. Commissioned into Royal Dragoons 1910. Served in India |