Captain Greville Hubert Robins Blount

Greville was born on 23 February 1883 and was baptised in the Holy Trinity Church, Aldershot, on 7 April 1883. His parents were Charles Hubert Blount and Maud Blount (nee Phillips).
Greville was very young when he was sent away to school and the 1891 census shows that he was a scholar, aged just 8, at Belper in Derbyshire. From there he went to Harrow and then the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
He entered the Royal Field Artillery in 1900, steadily working through the ranks to become a Captain in 1911.
On 14 May 1907 he married Gladys Isobel Wilson in Mitcham Parish Church. He was a Lieutenant by this time and was soon posted to India. Gladys accompanied him but regretfully she died just a year later, shortly after giving birth to their son Hubert. Hubert was brought back to the UK to live with his maternal grandparents, Canon and Mrs Wilson, at the Vicarage in Mitcham.
Greville served with the expeditionary force in France and was wounded in the leg and chest at the Battle of the Marne. He was moved from the battlefront to St Lazare, Normandy and initially was thought to be making a good recovery but he died on 23 September 1914 from an infection. He was the second soldier from Mitcham to die in the war and the first to die on active service.
He is buried in the St Nazaire (Toutes-Aides) Cemetery, Loire-L’Antiques, France plot E86 and is commemorated on the Mitcham War Memorial and in Mitcham Parish Church.
It was reported in the local paper that his son Hubert received a Christmas gift from the Queen that year, a camel with a large hump in which there was a set of nine pins. The accompanying card said ”From the Queen, Buckingham Palace”.