Claim: Three years after defeating Horrace Herring in the 1938 election, Arthur Grigg was killed in the midst of World War II.
Evidence: Grigg represented the electorate of Mid-Canterbury in Parliament from the 1938 election, when he defeated Horace Herring. He was a Major in the NZEF in World War II, and was killed on 29 November 1941 when Brigadier Hargest's headquarters in Libya was overrun.