Pilot Officer G.H. Grantham

Godfrey Harry Grantham was the fourth of a family of four boys.   His early childhood was spent in Essex, although his name, together with that of his father and brother, is recorded on a war memorial at Barcombe in East Sussex.   His mother, Alexandra von Herder, was of German origin but brought up in Switzerland. Godfrey's father, Frederick William, was killed in France in May 1915, and his (Godfrey's) oldest brother, Hugo Frederick, six weeks later at Gallipoli.   The second son, Alexander, was governor of Hong Kong from 1947 to 1957, the colony's longest serving governor.   The third son, Eric, died in infancy.

Godfrey was a talented artist.   His exhibition at the Wertheim Gallery in 1937 was reviewed in The Times of 17th September of that year.