Name
Arthur Percy Grover (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/08/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/60047
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MORLANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2
Row A, Grave 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford (*1)
Pre War
Son of Arthur and Mary (nee GOODCHILD) GROVER; husband of Elizabeth Florence (nee BARRETT) GROVER of Bromley.
His parents married 1886 in the Lewisham, London, district.
Arthur was born 1887 in Sydenham, London, and married 1915 in the Bromley district; they had one child. He resided in Bromley. Elizabeth remarried 1928 in the Bromley district to John Arthur Parker BAXTER, and died in Bromley 23 December 1951 aged 66.
On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Sydenham, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, a solicitor’s clerk aged 14, he still lived in Sydenham, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a printer and shopkeeper aged 24, he lived in Chislehurst, Kent, with his parents and no siblings.
Recorded as born in Sydenham, Kent and was living in Bromley when he
enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bromley, Kent; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 There are two possibilities for the A P Grover on the Watford Christ Church memorials, this man, Arthur Percy Grover and Albert Phillip Grover (see other biography) neither has a clear connection with Watford at this time, so we list both. His headstone reads "REST IN PEACE". Unfortunately, Arthur’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
