Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Poix-Du-Nord Communal Cemetery Extension | II. B. 22. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.124 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 35A GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Surveyor
Family :
Son of Harley Mair Grellier (also a Freemason of the same Lodge and Ebbisham Lodge) and Edith Louisa Grellier, of St. Martin's Croft, Epsom.Education & Career :
Wye College
Suveyor, 6 Queen Anne's Gate, London (1913).
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 51st Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery |
| Action : The Final Advance in Picardy |
17 October - 11 November 1918. The final stage of the British advance saw them cross the Selle and the Sambre rivers as the relentless pressure was kept on the retreating Germans. By the 11th November 1918 the British army had returned to Mons, where it all started for them back in August 1914 when it made its first contact with the Germans, and where the war stopped when the Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Detail :
Second Lieutenant Gordon Harley GRELLIER. 51st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). Formerly (Gunner 625471) Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). Died 31st October 1918 aged 33 years. Resided 6, Queen Annes Gate, Westminster, London. Son of Harley Mair Grellier and Edith Louisa Grellier of St Martin?s Croft, Epsom, Surrey. Buried Poix-Du-Nord Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Grave reference II.B.22. Gordon joined the college in 1905 and left in 1908. He was a member of the Surveyor?s Institute and upon leaving Wye went to work for his fathers firm in Westminster, London. Upon the outbreak of war he joined the army and was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery as a battery commander. In October his battery was East of Cambrai in France. He was killed instantly when a shell splinter struck him the day after he arrived in France and only 11 days before the armastice.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Huguenot No. 2140 E.C. | London |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
18th June 1913 | 16th July 1913 | 19th November 1913 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley