GROVE, Raymond Hinton
| Service Number: | 3131 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 4 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Flying Corps (AFC) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 February 1892 |
| Home Town: | Yarraville, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Surveyor |
| Died: | Accidental (Injuries), Scotland, United Kingdom, 19 August 1918, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Girvan (Doune) Cemetery Row M, Grave No. II |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Commissioner of Public Works Roll of Honour, Adelaide National War Memorial, Black Forest Parkside West Methodist Church and School Roll of Honor WW1, Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Unley Arch of Remembrance, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 3131, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 Jan 1916: | Involvement 3131, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Jan 1916: | Embarked 3131, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Adelaide | |
| 19 Aug 1918: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: Australian Flying Corps awm_rank: Second Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1918-08-19 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
THE PAIN HAS BEEN THE GLORY IS
Raymond Hinton Grove was born in Melbourne on 24 February 1892. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 29 January 1907 by his father, Joseph Grove, a contractor of Chute Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 20 December 1907. He had also attended Mount Gambier Grammar School. His family and he left Mount Gambier in about 1910. In Adelaide he joined the Government Survey Department and became an accredited surveyor.286
He enlisted at Keswick on 4 August 1915 (23, engineering surveyor, married with 1 child, Baptist), naming his wife, Myra Irene Grove of Malvern, SA, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Medic’ on 12 January 1916 as an Acting Corporal attached to the 7th Reinforcements to the 27th Battalion and disembarked in Egypt about a month later.
He re-embarked from Alexandria on the ‘Orana’ 21 March 1916, disembarked at Marseilles in France on 27 March and was taken on strength of the 27th Battalion on 2 May 1916. Several months later he was attached to the 7th Brigade Machine Gun Company on 22 July 1916 and in February 1917 was again transferred, this time to the 1st Anzac Light Railway. He was appointed to the rank of Temporary Corporal on 11 August 1917 and promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1917.
On 27 October 1917 he was transferred to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) in England and joined the 1st Royal Flying Corps School of Aeronautics, at Reading, as a cadet. He was marched into the 5th Training Squadron for elementary instruction in aviation on 15 January
1918, detached to the 34th Training Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (RFC) at Tern Hill for higher instruction in aviation on 4 March 1918, and graduated as a Flying Officer (Pilot) with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant on 26 June 1918.
He was killed accidentally on 19 August 1918, when the aircraft he was flying, a Sopwith Camel, nose-dived into the sea, 2 miles south of Turnberry in Scotland, during gunnery practice. A Court of Enquiry dated 20 August found the cause to be pilot error. His body was recovered and he was buried in Doune Cemetery, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom on 30 August. During his funeral ceremony three Sopwith Camels from his squadron performed a fly-over in his honour.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
Biography contributed by Cathy Sedgwick
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland”
Died on this date - 19th August.....Raymond Hinton Grove was born at Yarraville, Victoria in 1892.
He was a 23 year old, married, Engineering Surveyor from Malvern, South Australia when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 4th August, 1915.
He joined 27th Battalion in France on 2nd May, 1916 & was transferred to Australian Flying Corps on 27th October, 1917.
Second Lieutenant Raymond Hinton Grove was piloting a Sopwith Camel B. 9212 on 19th August, 1918 from No. 1 Fighting School, Turnberry Scotland for the purpose of Gunnery practice.
Second Lieutenant Raymond Hinton Grove was presumed killed on 19th August, 1918 as a result of an aeroplane accident when the aeroplane nose-dived into the sea. His body was not recovered at the time of the accident.
Second Lieutenant Grove’s body was recovered at Turnberry on 28th August, 1918.
He was buried in Doune Cemetery, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Australian Flying Corps
He was 26 and the son of Joseph and Margaret Ann Grove; husband of M. I. Grove, of 21, James St., St. Peters, Adelaide, Australia.
Address 'Myora', Wattle Street, Malvern, South Australia
Age at embarkation 23
Wife, Mrs Myra Irene Grove, 'Myora,' Wattle Street, Malvern, South Australia
Enlistment date 4 August 1915
Rank on enlistment Acting Corporal
27th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/44/2
Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 12 January 1916
Commissioned Rank from Nominal Roll 2nd Lieutenant
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