| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otley, Area 4 | Intelligence Officer | 27 Sep 1943 | 20 Jul 1944 |
| Golding, Area 17A | Intelligence Officer | 1943 | 1943 |
County Council worker
26 Nov 1914 Commissioned from Lance Corporal into the Royal Norfolk Regiment.
15 May 1915 promoted Lieutenant, served as Assistant Instructor at the Small Arms School.
1 Feb 1922 promoted Captain.
18 May 1927 retired from Army.
1938-1940 Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Area Organiser, Gosforth, East Northumberland. March 1940 left ARP role to rejoin forces, March 1940 General Staff Officer GSO(3) Captain, Reserve of Officers Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (alongside Captain C.M.P Coxwell-Rogers also later a Special Duties Intelligence Officer).
3 March 1941 Likely appointed Intelligence Officer Special Duties possibly for Northumberland.
3 March 1941 commissioned Captain in Intelligence Corps (not Gazetted for a year and also transferred from Royal Norfolk Regiment).
27 Sept 1943 Intelligence Officer Special Duties for Southwest England.
1 Oct 1946 promoted Major, relinquished his commission on account of disability and granted honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel
He was born in Long Benton Vicarage, Newcastle, Northumberland where his father Ernest was the vicar. Married Margaret Beaumont O'Connor 7 May 1917, they divorced in 1927 and he married Valerie Beckenham Long 5 Nov 1931.
In Beatrice Temple's diary she reports; "Aug 5 1942 Capt Grover drove her to Alnwick and was DCRE site and cottage. After lunch charming Lady Milward who will take ATS. Back via Div HQ. Capt Grover (with “much made-up, peroxide, crimson-nailed – ex-actress?) wife took her to dinner and the theatre. Some idea that Mrs G would like to join us – too difficult!"
After the Second World war he ran Thornhill Park and Country Club, Stalbridge.
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