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Lieutenant Ronald Eyre GREENWELL
Labour Corps Date of birth: 27th December 1883 Date of death: 4th April 1960 Died aged 76 Commemorated at Bournemouth Crematorium
Ronald Eyre Greenwell was born at 17 Portman Square, Marylebone in London on the 27th of December 1883 the fourth son of Sir Walpole Lloyd Greenwell, 1st Baronet of Marden Park, a stockbroker, and Kathleen Eugenie (nee Tizard) Greenwell of 17 Portman Square, London and of Marden Park House, Godstone in Surrey. He was christened in the Parish of St Marylebone on the 5th of March 1884. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1895 when he left for “a school more suited to his needs”. He went on to Harrow School where he was in Small House and Mr. Stogden’s House from January 1898 to April 1900. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) on the 26th of October 1901. He transferred to the 13th Hussars on the 26th of March 1902 and resigned his commission on the 4th of November 1903. On leaving the army he attended the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. Following the outbreak of war he enlisted as Private 1803 in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on the 16th of October 1914 rising to the rank of Sergeant. He transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 26th of September 1916 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Labour Corps on the 16th of September 1917. He embarked for France on the 20th of December 1917. He was married in 1917 to Thomasine Elizabeth (nee Boorer); they had no children. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 16th of March 1919. On leaving the army he became a farmer and was initiated as a Freemason with the Lodge of St George at Taunton on the 3rd of November 1919. He lived on his own means at Upper Warren House, Brean, Burnham-on Sea in Somerset. His brother, Lieutenant Evelyn Eyre Greenwell RN HMS Research, died on the 23rd of February 1919. He died at 61 Maxwell Road, Bournemouth and was cremated at a service held at Bournemouth Crematorium on the 8th of April 1960.

Went on to Harrow School