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F. Clive Grimwade

A British military historian remembered for chronicling the First World War service of the 4th Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). His best-known work offers a detailed, firsthand-style account of one battalion’s wartime experience from 1914 to 1919.

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The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919

The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919

by F. Clive Grimwade

About the author

Very little biographical information about F. Clive Grimwade is readily confirmed in major public sources, but he is consistently credited as the author of The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914–1919. Library and public-domain records also identify him as Captain F. Clive Grimwade, linking him closely with the regiment whose story he recorded.

His surviving reputation rests on that wartime history, first published in the early 1920s and later preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and Open Library. The book is valued as a detailed regimental chronicle of the First World War, following the battalion through training, service overseas, and major campaigns.

For listeners interested in military history, Grimwade’s work stands out for its close attention to unit life and the realities of service, making it useful both as a historical record and as a vivid portrait of one London battalion during the war.