And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Scholars have argued that had he lived Grenfell might well have become disillusioned like his fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. He was 27 years old and was buried at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. "


Honours and awards
1 January 1915 - Lieutenant The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell 1st (Royal) Dragoons is appointed a Companion of the DistinguiJulian Grenfelld Service Order in recognition of service with the Expeditionary Force - On 17 November he succeeded in reaching a point behind the enemy's trenches and making an excellent reconnaissance furnishing early information of a pending attack by the enemy.