Our sons will never be forgotten

By Louise Thrower
Updated April 25 2014 - 7:59am, first published 7:56am
LEST WE FORGET: Keith and Marjorie Speer have undertaken extensive research on soldiers buried at The Forest Cemetery at Middle Arm. Some of the World War One servicemen are commemorated at Rocky Hill War Memorial, the ‘spiritual home’ of Goulburn’s Anzac Day.
LEST WE FORGET: Keith and Marjorie Speer have undertaken extensive research on soldiers buried at The Forest Cemetery at Middle Arm. Some of the World War One servicemen are commemorated at Rocky Hill War Memorial, the ‘spiritual home’ of Goulburn’s Anzac Day.
Robert Henry Grubb joined the AIF in 1915 and was killed in France on August 31, 1916.
Robert Henry Grubb joined the AIF in 1915 and was killed in France on August 31, 1916.
OUR SON: The ‘Memorial Plaque’, otherwise known as the ‘Dead Man’s Penny,’ sent to families of soldiers killed in action, sits within Robert Grubb’s parents’ grave at The Forest cemetery.
OUR SON: The ‘Memorial Plaque’, otherwise known as the ‘Dead Man’s Penny,’ sent to families of soldiers killed in action, sits within Robert Grubb’s parents’ grave at The Forest cemetery.

A‘DEAD man’s penny’ set neatly in his parents’ headstone gives some hint of Henry Grubb’s tragic death.

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