Lewis Leonard GRANT

GRANT, Lewis Leonard

    Service Number: 449
    Enlisted: 16 September 1914, Melbourne, Victoria
    Last Rank: Sergeant
    Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey, Inverallan, Scotland, 1890
    Home Town: Allansford, Warrnambool, Victoria
    Schooling: Fintry School, Scotland
    Occupation: Farm labourer
    Died: Died of wounds, At sea aboard Hospital Ship Maheno, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 30 August 1915
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Buried at Sea-commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Panel 40 , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Allansford Memorial Pavilion, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
    Show Relationships

    World War 1 Service

    16 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 449, Melbourne, Victoria
    22 Dec 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 449, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
    22 Dec 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 449, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
    25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 449, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
    1 May 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 14th Infantry Battalion
    30 Aug 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 449, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 449 awm_unit: 14 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1915-08-30

    Help us honour Lewis Leonard Grant's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    He was 24 and the son of Lewis and Jessie Grant, of Police Station, Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is remembered on the Grantown-on-Spey War Memorial.

    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    He is one of 3 Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Dulnain Bridge War Memorial, near Grantown on Spey.

    Dulnain Bridge is a village in Strathspey, next to the meeting of the River Dulnain and the River Spey, three miles south-west of Grantown-on-Spey, in the Scottish Highlands and the Highland council area.

    Showing 4 of 8 images.
    Click images to start slideshow.

    Links and Documents