Regimental number | 1738 |
Place of birth | Sydney New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Hairdresser |
Address | 30 Young Street, Annandale, Sydney, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Louisa Groves, 30 Young Street, Annandale, Sydney, New South Wales |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 30th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/47/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A35 Berrima on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 13th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal (Crossed through) Recommendation date: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 22 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 69 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Son of Louisa GROVES, 30 Young Street, Annandale, New South Wales. Native of Sydney |
Medals |
Military Medal 'After the attack north west of POZIERES on the night 29th/30th August, 1916, Lance Corporal GROVES found himself the only remaining N.C.O. of his Platoon. He at once took charge, and reorganised his Platoon. By his prompt action he was able to maintain the defence of his line with a well controlled party of men. His action showed a cool judgement at a critical time.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal |