Author talk:Robert Johnstone Grewing

Sources

"Grewing, Robert J.". Catholic Who's Who: p. 180. 1908. 

Census

• 1911 England;

Name: Robert Johnstone Grewing
Age in 1911: 33
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Sydenham, Kent, England
Civil Parish: St Margaret and St John
Street address: 26 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: RESERVE OF OFFICERS, CAPTAIN LATE 3RD WEST KENT REGIMENT
Registration district: St George, Hanover Square
Registration District Number: 5
Sub-registration district: St Margaret and St John
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Piece: 491
Household Members:
Name Age
Henry Grewing 70
Helene Grewing 64
Henry Johnstone Grewing 37
Robert Johnstone Grewing 33
Dora Grewing 40
Carrol Bullock 28
Irene Alice Snell 28
Mary Parry 28
Edith Goldsmith 21
Isabel Annie Pinney 32
Mary Husband 39
Maude Alice Nye 23
Ethel Mary Vass 25
Ernest Isaac Chitty 26

Baptism

• Source Citation: Place: Brighton, Sussex, England; Collection: St Margaret; -; Date Range: 1880 - 1881; Film Number: 1067354

Name: Robert Johnstone Grewing
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 19 Sep 1880
Christening Place: Brighton, Sussex, England
Father's name: Henry Grewing
Mother's name: Helene

Death

• FreeBMD

Name: Robert J Grewing
Date of Registration: Dec 1935
Age at Death: 58
Registration district: Tendring
Volume: 4a
Page: 864

Birth

• FreeBMD; suspect that this is the birth record, time and place are right, and variation of name is of interest; birth certificate would be needed to confirm; 1881 census and births in district before and after are the same family

Births Jun 1877
GREWING Robert Percival H Lewisham 1d 989

Military

• Original data: Lieutenant General H G Hart. Hart's Annual Army List 1908. London, England: John Murray, 1908. > 666

Name: Robert Johnstone Grewing
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Queen's Own (R. West Kent)
Military Date: 31 May 1902
Publication Year: 1908
Publication Place: London, England

Started WWI as a captain

Captain Robert Johnstone GREWING. Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)

Finished the war as a gunner (private)

Medal card of Grewing, Robert J Corps: Royal Field Artillery Regiment No

Notes

Was alive and received the Victory Medal at the end of the War.

No obituary found. Mention of elder brother's death found, and he left money to mental hospital. For someone to have been known and respected to write before WWI, and then to disappear from view after the war, one might suspect that suffered psychological trauma from service, and had no public presence. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:40, 6 February 2016 (UTC)