SOLDIER-BARONET’S SAD DEATH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 13

SOLDIER-BARONET’S SAD DEATH

SHOOTS HIMSELF TO END TORMENT Sir Edward lon Beresford Grogan, D. 5.0., was found shot dead at his home, Shropham Hall, Attleborough, Norfolk. At the inquest Lads r Grogan said that Sir Edward, since his retirement in 1923, had been in a miserable state both in mind and body. He had frequently expressed the wish that he was out of his sufferings. For four years he had been ill from a chronic disease due to war service. A doctor said that Sir Edward had asked him if he could hasten his death because of the great pain. In 1924 Sir Edward had undergone an operation which had nearly proved fatal. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. Sir Edward, who was 54 years of age, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Rifle Brigade, and, as a general staff officer, served in the South African War, in which he was mentioned in dispatches. • From 1911 to 1914 he was military attache to the South American Republics. He won the D.S.O. in the Great War, during which he was attached to the 28th Division in Salonika, being later appointed to G.IT.Q. of that force. He was with the British Military Mission in Siberia 1918-19. Sir Edward, in 1907, married the widow of Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson. His father, Sir Edward Grogan, the first baronet, sat as M.P. for Dublin City 1841-65.