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VC830 Robert Cuthbert Grieve
Name Robert Cuthbert Grieve No.
VC Issue No. 830 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment, 37th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death At his office, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Presbyterian Section
Gazetted 2 August 1917
VC Presented 20 October 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Display in the Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Grieve Street, Macleod, Victoria, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
By The Way…
Founder of the soft goods firm Grieve, Gardner & Co. Melbourne
VC Held By
Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BORN 19 June 1889
DIED 4 October 1957 AGE 68
VC Won 7 June 1917 AGE 27
Place VC Won Messines, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
Thank you to Anthony Staunton