Second Lieutenant Lawrence Ernest Pelham Grubb

Regiment: Yorkshire Light Infantry
Panel reference: Panel 47.
Date published: 22/01/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 15/11/1914
Cemetery: Ypres (menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: 2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Ernest Pelham Grubb, Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action near Ypres on the 15th November, 1914, was a great-grandson of the late Mr. Richard Grubb, of Cahir Abbey, Co. Tipperary. He was educated at Rugby and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he had recently obtained his B.A. degree with honours. Lieut. Grubb went to the front early in August, and for over three months was a despatch rider. He fell when gallantly leading a charge.