BORN HULL 1892. ST BARNABAS. LIVED ST JOHNS COLLEGE, BATTERSEA, LONDON. SON OF ARTHUR EDWARD & MELINA GRIMWOOD, 90 HESSLE ROAD AND 47 BACHELER STREET, HULL. (1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS). HE WAS AN ONLY CHILD, A STUDENT TEACHER AND UNMARRIED. ENLISTED AS NO: 1394, 10TH MIDDLESEX REGIMENT AT BATTERSEA. ON 1/11/1912. SERVED IN INDIA BETWEEN 29/10/1914 & 11/05/1915. ARRIVED PERSIAN GULF ON 12/05/1915. POSTED TEMPORARILY TO THE RFC ON 29/08/1915 AND ALSO ATTACHED TO THE 2ND NORFOLKS. TAKEN AS PRISONER AT THE FALL OF KUT ON 29/04/1916. HIS DEATH WAS PRESUMED BETWEEN 7/09/1916 & 31/08/1917. HE WAS AGED 25 AND IS COMMEMORATED AT THE BASRA MEMORIAL.
First name:
ARTHUR ERNEST GRAY
Regiment:
Military Number:
290152
Rank:
Private
Date Died
31/08/1917
Place died:
Basra War Memorial, Iraq
Age:
25
