GRANT, Jack
| Service Number: | VX150753 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 29 July 1924 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 April 1987, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Altona Memorial Park, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX150753 | |
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| 29 Mar 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, VX150753, embarked Sydney for Kure | |
| 17 Nov 1947: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, VX150753, embarked Japan for Sydney per Kanimbla | |
| 27 Nov 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX150753 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Craftsman Jack Grant (Service No:VX150753) initially served with the ACMF as a Craftsman (Service No:V50166) - graded as Panel Beater attached to 10 Base Workshop. Craftsman Grant served in Darwin NT (13 May 1945 - November 1945) with NT Area Workshop and enlisted in the AIF on 26 February 1946. Craftsman Grant was attached to 5 Australian Workshop Coy and served in Japan (where he was graded as Welder) from 29 March 1946 to 17 November 1947. Craftsman Grant was attached to 6 Australian Welding Troop at Discharge on 27 November 1947. Two of his older brothers - Bill and Neil - also served in WWII.
Jack, born in 1924 in Melbourne Victoria, was the youngest of seven children of George Alexander Grant (b1877 at Amherst in the Central Goldfields, Victoria) and Amelia Eleanor Ingram Thompson (b1880 in Ballarat, Victoria). George (a Labourer) and Amelia married in 1908 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and George worked as a Labourer and Checker.
Jack worked as a Labourer in Melbourne prior to his service in WWII, and following his Discharge worked in Melbourne as a Welder. In 1962 in Melbourne, Jack married Mary Margaret Larsen (b1934 in Brisbane, QLD) - Mary was working in Melbourne as a Stenographer. Jack and Mary settled in Melbourne where Jack worked as a Welder and as an Industrial Radiographer. Jack died in 1987 and Mary in 2008.
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