Samuel Henry Grundy
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He was the son of Christopher and Mary Elizabeth Grundy and the brother of Charles Leslie and Albert Edwin Grundy of 81 Duke Street, Creswell Mansfield Nottinghamshire.
Private Samuel Henry Grundy, served with the Royal Marine Light Infantry on board H.M.S. Raglan, he was killed in action near the entrance to the Dardanelles on 20th January 1918. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
HMS Raglan sailed for the Dardanelles in June 1915. She remained in the Eastern Mediterranean, based at Imbros. On 20 January 1918 while the battleships Agamemnon and Lord Nelson were absent, Raglan and other members of the Detached Squadron of the Aegean Squadron were attacked by the Turkish battle cruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (formerly German battle cruiser SMS Goeben), the light cruiser Midilli (formerly German light cruiser SMS Breslau) and four destroyers. Raglan was sunk with the loss of 127 lives. The monitor M28 was also sunk in the same battle. Midilli and Yavuz Sultan Selim ran into a minefield; Midilli sank and Yavuz Sultan Selim was badly damaged. (Wikipedia)
