GRENFELL – CLAUDE GEORGE
| Born: Rank: LIEUT. Regiment: THORNEYCROFT’S MOUNTED INFANTRY GPS: S28°38.888 E29°30.995 |
Reason for death: KILLED IA Place of death: SPIOENKOP Date of death: 1900/02/24 Memorial: SPIOENKOP |
Note:
IN HIS BOOK “HILL OF SQUANDERED VALOUR” RON LOCK RECORDS THE FOLLOWING:-
“ANOTHER SECTION OF THE TMI, ALSO ATTEMPTING A COUNTER ATTACK, WAS SEVERLY MAULED: LIEUTENANT GRENFELL, WHO HAD BEEN LEADING, WAS SHOT IN THE LEG, THEN IN THE ARM, AND BEFORE HE COULD BE GIVEN MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS STRUCK IN THE HEAD AND KILLED”.
