Grubb L E P 2nd Lt 2nd Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
SECOND LIEUTENANT L. E. P. GRUBB
2ND BATTALION THE KING’S OWN (YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY)
LAWRENCE ERNEST PELHAM GRUBB was the only son of Ernest Pelham and Emily Mary Grubb, of Rugby, and grandson of Augustus Grubb, of Cahir Abbey, Ireland.
He entered the School in 1906, and passed on to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he held an Exhibition in 1911. He took a Third Class in the History School in 1914, and rowed for his College at Henley. He was an enthusiastic member of the staff of the School Club in Birmingham.
He enlisted at the outbreak of War and went out with the First Expeditionary Force as Corporal and Despatch Rider, R.E., to the 1st Signal Squadron, Ist Cavalry Division. He took part in the retreat from Mons, and during the operations “rode through” three motor cycles. Then, for a short time, he was attached to the Cavalry. He received his Commission in November, and a fortnight later was killed while leading his Platoon in a night attack on a house full of snipers, a few miles east of Ypres, on November 15th, 1914. Age 22.
The “Oxford Magazine” of January 22nd, 1915, spoke of him in the following terms:-
“The death of L. E. P. Grubb has robbed both Brasenose and the world of a very vivid and effective personality. During his three years at Oxford he developed as few men do, and became a striking force in the life around him. His special love was the river, and it is difficult to say how much B.N.C. rowing has owed to his enthusiasm. One likes to remember that last summer he enjoyed Henley as a member of a B.N.C. four. His host at Henley writes of him, ‘He struck both myself and my wife as the most lovable boy we had ever met.’ Nothing but the best ever contented him, either in himself or in others.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1
