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F. Clive Grimwade
A World War I regimental historian, this British author is best known for a detailed account of the 4th Battalion of the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). His writing brings together official records, personal service details, and the day-by-day strain of war.
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About the author
F. Clive Grimwade is known for The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914–1919, published in 1922. The book presents him as Captain F. Clive Grimwade of the 4th Battalion and was prepared at the request of a War History Committee formed after the First World War.
The committee's foreword praises the scale of the work and notes that he undertook the task of compiling a permanent record of the regiment's service in the European war. It also mentions help from fellow officers and from his mother, Mrs. Grimwade, who assisted with arranging information on officers' personal service and correcting drafts.
Reliable biographical details beyond his military rank and authorship are hard to confirm from the sources available here, so he is best introduced as a soldier-historian whose surviving reputation rests on this substantial regimental history.