Edward was a member of the famous cricketing family. Always a keen cricketer at school, he improved immensely after he left Wrekin, and played for Thornbury, Bristol University, and the Gloucestershire Gipsies, being a particularly brilliant fielder. He studied medicine at Bristol and was commissioned into the RAMC in May 1940 and almost immediately made four return journeys to Dunkirk providing much needed medical support to the evacuating troops.

Service in North Africa followed and at the time of his death on active service on Friday 14^th March 1941, at the age of 28, he was giving anaesthetics and looking after surgical beds in a hospital in Italy. Edward was buried in Bari War Cemetery, Italy.

Husband of Rosemary Grace of Wrotham, Kent: elder son of Dr Edgar Mervyn Grace & Hilda Henrietta Grace.

A copy of this story is available to download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’  relating to:- Captain Edward Mills GRACE