Person    | Female  Born 27/6/1974  Died 5/10/1999

Juliet Groves

Categories: Tragedy

An accountant, killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 27.

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Juliet Rebecca Groves was born on 27 June 1974 in Gloucester the daughter of Denman J. Groves and Maureen M. Groves née Baker. Living in Hartpury, Gloucestershire, she attended King's School in Gloucester and upon graduation had started working as an accountant at Ernst and Young and was living in Shepherds Bush. She died, aged 25 years, when she was returning from visiting her parents in Hartpury and was travelling in the front coach of the 6.03am First Great Western High Speed Train from Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire to Paddington in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster. It took eight days for her body to be recovered from the wreckage.

2022: From an anonymous informer "I would rather not give my name or contact details, but I knew Juliet personally. Your researcher has done some good work on her biography but is incorrect in one detail - she was not on the train travelling from Cheltenham but the one leaving Paddington. To be fair to your researcher, when we learned that Juliet had died we assumed the same thing, which makes the fact that she died on the other train that much more painful. She is still very much missed."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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