Edward, who was a member of the famous cricketing family, was educated at Wrekin College, Shropshire, from 1929-1933.

Always a keen cricketer at school, he improved immensely after he left Wrekin, and played for Thornbury, Bristol University, and the Gloucestershire Gipsies, being a particularly brilliant fielder.

He studied medicine at Bristol and was commissioned into the RAMC in May 1940 and almost immediately made four return journeys to Dunkirk providing much needed medical support to the evacuating troops.

Service in North Africa followed and at the time of his death on active service he was giving anaesthetics and looking after surgical beds in a hospital in Italy.

He was 28 years of age when he died and is buried at Bari War Cemetery, Italy. Edward was the husband of Rosemary Grace of Wrotham, Kent: elder son of Dr Edgar Mervyn Grace & Hilda Henrietta Grace.