John Raymond Grubb

Born in July 1934 in Hertfordshire, he was called up for his National Service in 1952, was posted to an Officer Cadet school in Cheshire and, in March 1953, was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the DLI.

After a few weeks at the Depot at Brancepeth, he sailed, with some other young officers, to join the 1st Battalion DLI on active service in Korea and, on 9 June, he joined "A" Company as a Platoon Commander on Point 355 - Little Gibraltar.

At dusk on 16 June 1953, John Grubb and another newly-arrived officer, Vernon Gordon, were being shown the front line positions by Second Lieutenant MacGregor-Oakford, when an enemy mortar bomb exploded on the trench parapet in front of them.

John Grubb died of his wounds that evening, sixteen days short of his nineteenth birthday. He is buried in the United Nations Cemetery at Pusan in Korea.