High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Cuthbert Grieve VC (19 June 1889 – 4 October 1957) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War. He was once thought to have been the great nephew of Sergeant-Major John Grieve, also a Victoria Cross recipient, however this has since been disproven.