Years of service 1863 - 1901 Awards Order of the Bath Allegiance United Kingdom Died 1920 Rank Major-general | Name Coleridge Grove Service/branch British Army Battles/wars Mahdist War Battles and wars Mahdist War | |
Major-General Sir Coleridge Grove KCB (1839–1920) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.
Military career
Grove was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1863. He went on to serve in Egypt and Sudan. He became Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Ireland in 1882 and Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Army Headquarters in 1883 moving on to be Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1886 and Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters after that.
Appointed Military Secretary in 1896, he developed plans for universal military training in the British Army. He retired in 1901.
In retirement he was Colonel of the East Yorkshire Regiment from November 1901 to 1920.
He had in his possessions a large Elizabethan chest which was lost in a great fire in Brussels in 1910. He died in 1920.