Legacy
After his death, Grayburn's body fell into the Lower Rhine. It was recovered in 1948 and added to the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Although most graves in the cemetery are organised by unit, Grayburn's is separate from the other parachute formations. His VC is in the care of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum and there are plaques in his memory at Chalfont St Giles parish church, and at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation war memorial in Hong Kong, where Grayburn's uncle worked before the war. In the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, Christopher Good played a composite character of Grayburn and Tatham-Warter.
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