Harold Constantine Grubb
Daily Gleaner, July 15, 1915
THE ROLL OF HONOUR OF YOUNG JAMAICA.
The following are the names and addresses of those who passed the medical examination at Up-Park Camp on Tuesday last and who will form a part of Jamaica's War Contingent:--
[in a long list]
Harold Grubb Montego Bay
THE ROLL OF HONOUR OF YOUNG JAMAICA.
The following are the names and addresses of those who passed the medical examination at Up-Park Camp on Tuesday last and who will form a part of Jamaica's War Contingent:--
[in a long list]
Harold Grubb Montego Bay
Daily Gleaner, December 28, 1915
[the Northern News confused the first names of father and son.]
Some days later parts of a letter from one of Harold Grubb's friends and fellow soldiers were printed in the Gleaner, from the Northern News. The circumstances of Grubb's death are described, but unfortunately the final paragraph of the item, which seems to go further into Grubb's medical condition is entirely illegible - I will have to try to access a better copy. I have done my best to transcribe the other not very legible parts of the item.
Daily Gleaner, January 17, 1916
Well, on Sunday last (December 12) after service, at which he took communion, he went to Brighton, an important town of England and returned the same night without any complaint, for we took a laugh before he went to bed. He never complained in the least, but in the morning when the bugle blew and we all got up, he remained in his bed. I went to him and asked him what was the matter. He told me he was feeling pain on the back of his neck. I reported [it?] to the Sergeant and he was immediately taken to the hospital, but before reaching there he became breathless. The doctors tried [ ] but when they found that [ ] they sent for the Chaplain, who started to pray for him, but before the close of the prayer, he departed this world, not more than two hours after he was taken to the hospital.
But, dear mother, I sincerely hope, and I do believe, that his soul is at restore he was nothing if not a Christian boy, for he was a light to all the boys with whom he stopped; [ ] can [ ] how his promise[?] is [ ] by us all. The writer of which is Private W. Dunn, of this town, whose mother resides about three or four chains from the Northern News Office. [The remaining paragraph of the item is not readable in the copy that I have access to.]
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