Granado Walter FOREMAN

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FOREMAN, Granado Walter

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	10 November 1915
Last Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Royal Flying Corps
Born:	Poowong, Victoria, Australia, 31 January 1894
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engineer's assistant
Died:	Killed In Action, France, 14 July 1917, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension VI, H, 4
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll, Poowong Great War Honour Board, Poowong War Memorial

World War 1 Service

10 Nov 1915:	Enlisted
23 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
22 Oct 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, 5th Infantry Battalion
14 Jul 1917:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Flying Corps

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Biography contributed

Granado Walter FOREMAN was born in Poowong, Victoria on 31st January, 1894

His parents were Walter FOREMAN & Emma Louise CHAPMAN

Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Discharged from AIF in London. Reason - appointed a commission in the Royal Flying Corps. He was Killed in Action in France was serving on the Royal Flying Corps

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From How We Served

Second Lieutenant Granado Walter Foreman, had been employed by the Victorian State Railways as an engineering and surveying assistant, and was a resident of St. Kilda, Victoria when he enlisted for War Service in February of 1915.

Having already served with the Militia as a 2nd Lieutenant, Grenado applied for an Officer's Commission on the 12th of February 1915, and was duly accepted.

Allocated to the 5th Battalion, 1st AIF, Grenado embarked with reinforcements bound for Egypt on the 25th of November 1915, and after his arrival he joined the 6th Training Battalion at Tel-El- Kabir on the 23rd of March 1916.

Embarking for Europe following his engagement with the Training Battalion, Grenado applied for the Royal Flying Corps, and was discharged from the 1st AIF on the 22nd of October 1916.

Following flight training where he was taught to fly the F.E.2b Biplane in England, Grenado was sent to France to join 22nd Squadron Royal Flying Corps and was 'Killed in Action' in the vicinity of Arras on the 14th of July 1917. He was aged 23.

Grenado's body was recovered, and he was formally interred within the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Back home in Australia, Second Lieutenant Grenado Foreman's grieving parents had their son's supreme sacrifice made during the 'Great War' privately memorialised at the Foreman family's collective burial site located within Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria.

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