245812 Pte. George Grimmett British Army 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment from:Handsworth (d.24th September 1917) Private George Grimmett was born in 1887 in Handsworth and his parents were Amos and Charlotte Grimmett. His father was a gardener and they lived at 11 Church Terrace. He had 8 siblings and went to Rookery Road School. The 1901 census says he was a grocers errand boy aged 14 years old. He married Eleanor Alice Shotton in 1910 in Birmingham and the following year, their son George Stanley Grimmett was born in Handsworth. They were living at 166 Somerset Road and George was a green grocer. He joined as a Private with the 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1914 and went to France on 30th July 1915 near Tilques. Another son Benjamin John was born in 1916. He was killed in action on 24th September 1917. He was awarded the British Medal and the Victory Medal. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Passchendaele, a War Memorial in the Red Hall of Rookery School and Somerset Road Methodist Church (now Rookery Road Methodist Church). Rookery School did a project recently to commemorate WW1 and choose George Grimmett as a soldier from their memorial to research and find out what his life was like before and during the war and how it affected his family.
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