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 FATHER, ROBERT.
HE IS BURIED AT BARROW-UPON-HUMBER CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “CHRIST WILL LINK THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN”.
First name:
WILFRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
TR/6/18530
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/05/1917
Place died:
Barrow On Humber Cemetery, Lincolnshire, UK
Age:
18
5 MOUNT PLEASANT, BARROW ON HUMBER, , NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
