PRIVATE OSCAR GRIMES
27TH BTTN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
5TH NOVEMBER 1916 AGE 38
BURIED: WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
Oscar Grimes was reported wounded, missing in action on 5 November 1916 during the Battle of Flers. A month later his mother, Martha Grimes, instituted a Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau search. Confirmation of Oscar's death didn't come until August 1917 but by this time Martha Grimes was dead having died two weeks after instituting the search. Since Oscar's father was already dead it was his brother who chose his inscription, "Dear Oscar always remembered".