KILLED IN ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1942, Page 6

KILLED IN ACTION

LIEUT-COLONEL GREVILLE

Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Greville, N.Z.S.C. who has been killed in action in the Western Desert, was an officer of the New Zealand Regular Force with a record of military service extending over the past 26 years. Colonel Greville, who was 45 years of age, was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and the Royal Military College, ■ Duntroon, Australia. Upon graduation from Duntropn in 1919 he received a commission in the New Zealand Staff Corps and was posted to Auckland in his first staff appointment. He left the Army in 1921 to take up farming, but resumed his military career again in 1925. After two years as area officer in Blenheim he was, in 1927, posted on exchange to India for attachment for two years' training to an infantry battalion and for frontier duty. He returned to New Zealand in 1929 and was posted to Auckland, holding various staff appointments there and later in Dunedin until he was transferred to Army Headquarters jin 1938. A few days before the outbreak of war he was promoted to the.rank of major. He went overseas with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Advance Party in December, 1939, and was appointed Deputy Assistant Quarter-master-General at Divisional Headquarters. He spent a period on,, duty in England and returned, to the Middle East shortly after the Greece campaign. He was granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in August last year when given command of a training battalion at the base, and later commanded a battalion in the field, where he was killed. He leaves a wife and two children. —

Colonel Greville was a keen boxer and footballer, and at one time played first-grade Rugby in Auckland.