The Marlborough
Historical Society

    Grenville was born the 6th of June 1913 in Laconia, New Hampshire one of seven children born to Elmer and Mahala Baker. He lived in Marlborough with his family in the 1920’s. While living with a cousin in Somerville, Massachusetts and working at a F.W. Woolworth store, he enlisted into the Army Air Corps the 29th of August 1942. Following his training he was assigned as a radio operator aboard B-24 Liberator aircraft of the 868th Bomb Squadron. This squadron flew radar equipped SB-24 “Snooper” aircraft which were able to locate Japanese shipping throughout the South Pacific.

    He earned one Air Medal during his time with the squadron. On the 10th of March 1944, Grenville, now a Technical Sergeant, and his crewmembers took off from Munda field on New Georgia in order to attack shipping in the Rabaul area of New Guinea. The aircraft never returned from its mission. Grenville and his crewmembers are remembered on the Tablet of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines. A cenotaph is located in the rural cemetery in Southboro, Massachusetts in his memory.

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