1724
Daniel Groves
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Son of Fredrick Malcolm and Mary Ann Groves
Rigolet, Labrador
1892- 17 April 1917Enlisted:
Age
Embarked:
Highest rank attained: Private
KIA: April 17th, 1917Burial Details: His name is inscribed on the Beaumont Hamel Memorial among those who have no known grave.
Commemorated on Page 50 of the
Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
Cemetery:
BEAUMONT-HAMEL (NEWFOUNDLAND) MEMORIAL
France
Grave Reference: N/ALocation: The largest of the battlefield parks established in memory of Newfoundlanders who fell in the First World War is Beaumont Hamel, nine kilometres directly north of the town of Albert.
In BEAUMONT HAMEL MEMORIAL PARK, which was officially opened by Earl Haig on June 7, 1925, the monument of the great bronze caribou, emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, stands on the highest point overlooking St John's Road and the slopes beyond. At the base of the statue three tablets of bronze carry the names of over 800 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, and the Mercantile Marine who gave their lives in the First World War and have no known grave. In the lodge, which houses the reception room for visitors to the Park, a bronze plaque, unveiled in 1961 by the Hon. Joseph Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland, lists the Battle Honours won by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and pays tribute to its fallen.
The park is one of the few in France or Belgium where the visitor can see a Great War battlefield much as it was. The actual trenches are still there and something of the terrible problem of advancing over such country can be appreciated by the visitor.
There is no recorded action of the Regiment on this date. They were in fact retired to the rear after the disastrous battle of Monchy-le Preux on April 14th. Groves probably died of wounds sustained in that attack.