181 Airlanding Field Amb, Royal Army Medical Corps (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
19/06/1914
Died:
10/07/1943 (Killed in Action)
Age:
29
Summary
Hubert Gough Greeves was the youngest son of Robert Douglas and Sarah Louisa Greeves. He was the second youngest of six children. The family lived at Grange, near Moy. Hubert was educated at Dungannon Royal School and then Queens University. Captain Hubert Gough Greeves was serving with the 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, part of the Royal Army Medical Corps, when he was killed in action in Sicily on 10th July 1943.
Further Information
Hubert Gough Greeves was the youngest son of Robert Douglas and Sarah Louisa Greeves. Robert D Greeves and Sarah Louisa Hobson were married on 23rd August 1905 in the district of Dungannon.
Robert Douglas Greeves was Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.
Hubert Gough Greeves was born on 19th June 1914 in County Tyrone. He was the second youngest of six children. The family lived at Grange, near Moy.
Known family: Robert Douglas Greeves, Sarah Louisa Greeves, William Hobson Clague Greeves (born 29 Jun 1906), Frederick Douglas Greeves (born 14 Jul 1907), Thomas Noel Greeves (born 20 Oct 1908), John Ernest Greeves (born 9 Oct 1910), Hubert Gough Greeves (born 19 June 1914), Margaret Edith Greeves (born 6 Jun 1916).
Hubert was educated at Dungannon Royal School.
Hubert graduated initially from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.). He then graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland, with a Bachelor of Surgery (B.Ch.).
He graduated from Queen's University in 1938 with a Bachelor of Art of Obstetrics (B.A.O.).
Hubert married Rosaline Burke, the daughter of Raymond Augustus Burke, on 18th October 1942.
Captain Hubert Gough Greeves was serving with the 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, part of the Royal Army Medical Corps, when he was killed in action in Sicily on 10th July 1943.
Part of the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 involved landing six medical gliders on the island. Of the six medical gliders which set out, only one landed on the island. It is thought that Captain Greeves’ glider was one of those lost. It was reported that Captain Greeves and 15 men of ther ranks were missing.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 24th April 1943:
Mr R D Greeves, of Grange, Dungannon, has received intimation that his son, Captain H G Greeves, Royal Army Medical Corps, is reported missing.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 21st August 1943:
Captain H G Greeves, Royal Army Medical Corps (son of Mr R D Greeves, of the Grange, Dungannon), is reported missing in North Africa. In October last he was married to Miss Rosaline Burke, barrister-at-law, eldest daughter of Mr R A Burke, D.L., and Mrs Burke, The Priory, Belfast.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 11th September 1943: Mr Douglas Greeves Bereaved
At Dungannon Education Committee last week, the Rev S W Thompson, B.A. presiding, referred in appropriate terms to the bereavement sustained by one of the members. Mr R D Greeves, by the death of his son, Captain H G Greeves, R.A.M.C., intimation of which they all read in the papers. This was one of those tragedies which must be expected in war, said Rev Thompson, and other members had been similarly bereaved, and the members of the committee wished to assure Mr Greeves that he had their deep sympathy. Captain Greeves was a very brilliant officer and doctor, and had transferred from ordinary duties to the most dangerous form of warfare – the Airborne Troops - and lost his life in the recent operations. His loss had occasioned great grief to his father, as it had done to all the members who regarded him as one of their brilliant young men. He proposed that the secretary convey to Mr Greeves the deep sympathy of the committee. The motion was passed in silence.
Captain Hubert Gough Greeves has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 12 of the Cassino Memorial in Italy.
Captain Hubert Greeves is commemorated locally on Moy War Memorial and on the Queen's University War Memorial.
