20 July 2010

1872453 L/Cpl George A Grundy, RE

1872453 Lance-Corporal George Alexander Grundy of No 19 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, died on the 20th July 1942. He was 24 years old, the son of Captain Samuel Herbert Percival Grundy and Sarah (Lallie) Grundy, of Bassett, Southampton, and the husband of Rosaline Grundy, of Southampton. Captain Grundy would also die on active service nearly two years later on 22nd June 1944.

Lance-Corporal Grundy is buried in Baghdad's North Gate War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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