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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
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| country = England
| fullname = Ellis Louis George Neville Grell
| birth_date = 24 December 1890
| birth_place = [[History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago#British_period|Trinidad]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1918|6|5|1890|12|24}}
| death_place = [[Landour]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]],<br>[[British India]]
| heightft =
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| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
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| club1 = [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team|Trinidad]]
| year1 = 1910/11
| club2 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year2 = 1910/11
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 51
| bat avg1 = 12.75
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 25
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 31 March
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/52013.html Cricinfo
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'''Ellis Louis George Neville Grell''' (24 December 1890 – 5 June 1918) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[Canadian Army|Canadian]], [[British Army|British]] and [[British Indian Army]].

The son of Ellis Grell senior, he was born at [[Trinidad]] in December 1890. He was educated in Trinidad at [[Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago|Saint Mary's College]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|page=563}}</ref> before being sent to England to continue his education at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]] and [[Clifton College]], leaving the latter in 1908.<ref>{{cite book |title=Clifton College Annals and Register |first=F. |last=Borwick |date=1912 |publisher=J. W. Arrowsmith, Ltd. |pages=413 |url=https://archive.org/details/b28994553/page/412/ |language=en}}</ref> He played [[first-class cricket]] back in Trinidad, playing for [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team|Trinidad]] in the final of the [[Inter-Colonial Tournament]] against [[Barbados national cricket team|Barbados]] in September 1910 at [[Bourda|Georgetown]] in [[British Guiana]].<ref name="FCM">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/23/23651/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Neville Grell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=1 April 2021|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He made scores of 1 and 8 in the match, being dismissed by [[Stanley Worme]] and [[Snuffy Browne]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8300.html|title=Barbados v Trinidad, Inter-Colonial Tournament 1910/11 (Final)|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=1 April 2021|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In March of the following year, he played in a second first-class match for the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] side, captained by [[Arthur Somerset Jr|Arthur Somerset]], against Trinidad at [[Queen's Park Oval|Port-of-Spain]].<ref name="FCM"/> He fared better batting than in his previous match, making scores of 17 and 25, for which he was dismissed by [[Joseph Rogers (West Indian cricketer)|Joseph Rogers]] and [[George John (cricketer)|George John]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8339.html|title=Trinidad v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1910/11|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=1 April 2021|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Grell emigrated to Canada, where he held a [[Officer_(armed_forces)#United_Kingdom|commission]] in the [[The British Columbia Dragoons|British Columbia Horse]]. During his time in North America, he also played [[club cricket]] in the United States for [[Staten Island Cricket Club]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

At the start of the [[First World War]] in July 1914, Grell resigned his commission with the British Columbia Horse and transferred to [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)|Lord Strathcona's Horse]], travelling to England in early 1915.<ref name="BOOK"/> He gained a commission as a [[Second_lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_other_Commonwealth_countries|second lieutenant]] in the [[British Army]] in February 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29066|date=12 February 1915|page=1455}}</ref> joining the [[West Yorkshire Regiment]] in November 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29376|date=19 November 1915|page=11582|supp=y}}</ref> Grell was seriously wounded in action at [[Ypres]] in October 1916 and was sent away from the front to recover. While recovering he was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in July 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30444|date=21 December 1917|page=13461|supp=y}}</ref> He did not recover sufficiently enough to return to the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]], instead being sent to [[British India]] in August 1917 where he joined the [[27th Punjabis]].<ref name="BOOK"/> Grell became ill while serving at [[Landour]] and was taken to the military hospital there for treatment, but died a short time later on 5 June 1918.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228166.html|title=Obituaries during the war, 1914-1919|date=2 December 2005|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=1 April 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1918 deaths]]
[[Category:British Trinidad and Tobago people]]
[[Category:People educated at Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago]]
[[Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire]]
[[Category:People educated at Clifton College]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Trinidad and Tobago cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]
[[Category:English emigrants to Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian Expeditionary Force officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:West Yorkshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Punjab Regiment officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Lord Strathcona's Horse officers]]

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