Captain J H F Grenfell and Lieutenant GW Grenfell


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Reference WMO/230708

Address:

Cliveden Estate

Memorial Garden

Cliveden

Taplow

SL6 0ER

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Garden
Materials:
  • Flora and Fauna Flora and Fauna (any)
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Garden, decorated wall, statuary and plaque with poem to these brothers, JHFD being a well-known poet.
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Stone: IN MEMORY OF THE HAPPY LIVES OF/ JULIAN HENRY FRANCIS GRENFELL/ CAPTAIN ROYAL DRAGOONS/ DIED OF WOUNDS AT BOULOGNE/ MAY 26TH 1915 AGED 27,/ AND OF/ GERALD WILLIAM GRENFELL/ SECOND LIEUTENANT RIFLE BRIGADE/ KILLED LEADING A CHARGE NEAR (...)/ JULY 30TH 1915, AGED 25. Plaque: The naked earth is warm with spring,/ And with green grass and bursting trees/ Leans to the sun's gaze glorying,/ And quivers in the sunny breeze;/ And life is colour and warmth and light,/ And a striving evermore for these;/ And he is dead who will not fight;/ And who dies fighting has increase./ The fighting man shall from the sun/ Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth;/ Speed with the light-foot winds to run,/ And with the trees to newer birth;/ And find, when fighting shall be done,/ Great rest, and fullness after dearth./ All the bright company of Heaven/ Hold him in their high comradeship,/ The Dog-Star, and the Sisters Seven,/ Orion's Belt and sworded hip./ The woodland trees that stand together,/ They stand to him each one a friend;/ They gently speak in the windy weather;/ They guide to valley and ridge's end./ The kestrel hovering by day,/ And the little owls that call by night,/ Bid him be swift and keen as they,/ As keen of ear, as swift of sight./ The blackbird sings to him,"Brother, brother,/ If this be the last song you shall sing,/ Sing well, for you may not sing another;/ Brother, sing."/ In dreary, doubtful, waiting hours,/ Before the brazen frenzy starts,/ The horses show him nobler powers;/ O patient eyes, courageous hearts!/ And when the burning moment breaks,/ And all things else are out of mind,/ And only joy of battle takes/ Him by the throat, and makes him blind,/ Through joy and blindness he shall know,/ Not caring much to know, that still/ Nor lead nor steel shall reach him, so/ That it be not the Destin'd Will./ (...) Julian Grenfell

Grade II (England)

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