Regiment: Training Reserves 15th Battalion

BORN BARROW, LINCS 1899. SON OF ROBERT GRASSBY (1852-1938) & SARAH JANE OTTER (1857-1911), of 5 MOUNT PLEASANT PLACE, NEW HOLLAND, BARROW ON HUMBER. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED AT SCUNTHORPE. LIVED IN HULL. DIED IN TRAINING WITH THE 15TH SHERWOOD FORESTER RESERVES, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 18. HIS WAR PENSION, WAS LEFT TO HIS FATH […]