Edward was a member of the famous cricketing family; great nephew of WG Grace. 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 from typhoid whilst on active service on Friday 14^th March 1944, 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 [neé Garner] of Wrotham, Kent since 1942: elder son of Dr Edgar Mervyn Grace & Hilda Henrietta Grace.

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Revised: October 2025