BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JAMES GRASSBY & MARY ELIZA SIGSWORTH (1860-1943), OF 25 BOURNEMOUTH STREET, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. HE MARRIED EDITH (YATES), AT PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE, IN 1912. HE LIVED IN ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.
ENLISTED IN BIRMINGHAM. SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, IN THE 9TH RIFLE BRIGADE. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 19/08/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, IN BELGIUM. ON 21/01/1916, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EDITH MAY, WHO MOVED TO “ST KILDA”, QUEEN STREET, BARTON UPON HUMBER (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE SON, GEORGE ALBEBERT, BORN 06/09/1913.
HE LEFT BROTHER GEORGE FRANSCIS GRASSBY AND SISTER, HILDA MAY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S CLIFTON STREET SCHOOL MEMORIAL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
