A brave man who along with many tens of thousands of other brave men have no known grave. One more name on a vast memorial, one of many such memorials, however this name is different to the others as it is our family name. Born in West Ham in 1895 Grigg joined the army in March 1913, 6 months before his 18th birthday. He joined the 5th Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment & was sent to France in 1914. He was wounded twice & awarded the Military Medal in October 1916 for his actions in August 1916, a bar was awarded in May 1917 for his part in a trench raid near Arras on 17th March 1917 & a second bar awarded in March 1918 for his action during November 1917.  The poppy marks the area where he was declared missing in action, presumed killed on 5th April 1918 when the German Spring Offensive was in progress.  He is remembered on the walls of the British Cemetery at Pozieres. However there is a small British Cemetery at Bouzincourt Ridge which overlooks fields which, at the time, were the British trenches attacked on 5th April 1918. In this cemetery are the graves of a number of Royal Berkshire soldiers killed that very day plus 5 unknown soldiers from the same Regiment, it is possible that Grigg is one of those unknown men. I hope so. He was never married & like so many others died at such a young age in the most dreadful of circumstances. May all the lost souls of this terrible conflict rest in peace.

David Epsly