GRIMWOOD, Kenneth Reeve
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Rank:
Sergeant
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
'Commando Basic Training Centre'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Service:
Army
Born:
Thursday, March 4, 1920
Died :
Tuesday, March 11, 1952
Place died:
Lincolnshire
Age:
32
Kenneth Grimwood, a former pupil of Moulton Grammar School, was a Postman in 1939 and residing in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. He volunteered in 1940 for the Commandos after enlisting in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and was attached to No.3 Commando. Active service in the Commandos included operations at Norway and Dieppe, France. Also served on the staff of the Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry. Married Mary Burden from Fairlie, Ayrshire, in June 1942. Member of the Commando Association. Kenneth died in 1952 after several years of ill health.
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 15 (1952).
The 1939 Register covering Holbeach.
Report on his service in the Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury and Spalding Guardian, 16 Jan 1942, p5.
Report on his participation at Dieppe and Norway in the Louth Standard 29 August 1942, p5.
Report on his death in the Lincolnshire Free Press 18 March 1952 (below).
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