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GRIEVE Robert Cuthbert
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Captian
37th Battalion, 10th Brigade, 3rd Division
7 June 1917
Messines, Belgium
World War 1
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Australian War Memorial
Negative Number: H38
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CITATION: For most conspicuous bravery. During an attack on the enemy's position, in the face of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, and after all his officers had been wounded and his company had suffered very heavy casualties, Captain Grieve located two hostile machine-guns which were holding up his advance. He then single-handed, under continuous fire from these two machine-guns, succeeded in bombing and killing the two crews, re-organised the remnants of his company and gained his original objective. Captain Grieve, by his utter disregard for danger and coolness in mastering a very difficult position, set a splendid example and when he finally fell wounded, the position had been secured and the few remaining enemy were in full flight. (London Gazette: 2nd August 1917.)
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