Uncatalogued: Grenfell, Charles Howard, Temporary Lieutenant, RNVR, 1880-1977.

Items relating to the service of Charles Howard Grenfell in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and his civilian role at the Royal Naval College, Osborne: Diaries (8 volumes) and letters sent to his mother Mary Greenhouse while he was on the river monitor HMS SEVERN, 1914 - 1918; photograph albums showing events and personalities at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, circa 1908-1914; magazine articles and loose papers providing narratives of the attack on the German light cruiser KÖNIGSBERG.

Administrative / biographical background
Charles Howard Greenhouse was born at Liverpool in 1880. He was related to the Grenfell family through the marriage of his sister Lilian Greenhouse to Algernon George Grenfell, head teacher at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, Cheshire. He was a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) during the First World War. He served on the river monitor HMS SEVERN (1914), taking part in operations off the Belgian coast and the attack on the German light cruiser KÖNIGSBERG in the Rufiji Delta in German East Africa. In March 1918 he returned to his civilian duties as master of modern languages at the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Later he was senior master of modern languages at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. A brief service record can be found at The National Archives, see ADM 337/117/206.