Detail victim

Name GRANDAGE
Initials WB
First name WILLIAM BRIGGS
Place of birth Bradford
Country Yorkshire, England
Last residence 90, Cromwell Road, South Kensington
Family Son of Abraham and Ruth Grandage, of Kent House, Rawdon, Leeds; three brothers, eight sisters;
Education Chevin Dell Boarding School, Otley; Sedbergh School; Clare College; Cambridge University; St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Profession Physician
Extra info Husband of Helen Mary Grandage (nee Landale, later Gwatkin Williams), of 74, Gloucester Rd., London, S.W.7.

Rank Lieutenant-Colonel
Regiment and unit 235th Brigade Royal Field Artillery T.F.
Army - Corps - Division 47th Division
National force B.E.F.
Other data related to military career Held a captain's commission in a London brigade of the Territorial Force, R.F.A., prior to the war, was promoted major in August, 1914, and in April, 1916, was given the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel; to France on 26 February 1917

Wounded 14 May, shellburst while he was walking from his own lead quarters to that of an infantry brigade
Date of death 14 May 1917
Died at the age of 37
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 30