Frank
Le Maistre Gruchy, a veteran of the Boer War was
thirty-eight when he was killed in action reportedly
at the head of his men leading them into battle at Ennetieres
(near Armentieres) in Northern France.
He was a Captain with the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire
Regt. and shortly before his death Frank had passed
his promotion examinations to become a Major.
Frank died on 23rd October 1914 and is buried in Ration
Farm Cemetery, La Chapelle-D'Armentieres. He was the
son of George and Marie A Gruchy, of Ronceville.
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A man who died just fifteen days before the end of the
war was Everard
Chandler Stent.
The eldest son of Thomas Chandler and Emily Mary Stent
(nee Mollet), of 1 Lansdowne Villas, St Lukes, Everard
was a former teacher and a well-known footballer in the
Island playing for Wanderers before he joined the army.
He was a Bombardier with the Royal Field Artillery and
was killed in action in France at the age of thirty-five.
Everard is buried in La Vallee-Mulatre Communal Cemetery
Extension.
All deaths in the Great War are sad but I find deaths,
which occurred, in the last few weeks of the war very
poignant; it must have been extremely hard for the families
to bear such a loss so near the end.
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