Grover, A P

ARTHUR PERCY GROVER

Remembered with honour Morlancourt British Cemetery No. 2: Row A, Grave 9.

He enlisted in Bromley, Kent; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.  Unfortunately, Arthur’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.

Son of Arthur and Mary (nee GOODCHILD) GROVER; husband of Elizabeth Florence (nee BARRETT) GROVER of Bromley.

His parents married 1886 in the Lewisham, London, district.

Arthur was born 1887 in Sydenham, London, and married 1915 in the Bromley district; they had one child.  He resided in Bromley.  Elizabeth remarried 1928 in the Bromley district to John Arthur Parker BAXTER, and died in Bromley 23 December 1951 aged 66.

On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Sydenham, with his parents and one sibling.  On the 1901 Census, a solicitor’s clerk aged 14, he still lived in Sydenham, with his parents and one sibling.  On the 1911 Census, a printer and shopkeeper aged 24, he lived in Chislehurst, Kent, with his parents and no siblings.