GRANT, William George
| Service Numbers: | V7365, VX122944 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Employment Company |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 26 May 1916 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 October 1985, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Footscray Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V7365, Infantry Training Battalions | |
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| 18 Jan 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V7365, 22 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 19 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944 | |
| 2 Jun 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944, Australian Employment Company, embarked Townsville for New Guinea | |
| 9 Jul 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944, Australian Employment Company, embarked Moresby for Townsville per Canberra | |
| 22 Jan 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944, Australian Employment Company, embarked Townsville for Hollandia per Duntroon | |
| 1 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944, Australian Employment Company, embarked Hollandia for Morotai per Bontikoa | |
| 4 Mar 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX122944, embarked Morotai for Kure per Stamford Victory | |
| 14 Feb 1947: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, VX122944, embarked Kure for Sydney per Manoora | |
| 11 Mar 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX122944 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper William George Grant (Service No:VX122944) initially served with the ACMF as a Private (Service No:V7365) attached to 19 Infantry Training Battalion and 22nd Infantry Battalion from 15 August 1940 to 18 January 1943. Private Grant enlisted in the AIF on 19 January 1943 and was attached to 33 Employment Coy. Private Grant served in New Guinea (2 June 1943 - 9 Jully 1944) with 33 Employment Coy and in Hollandia and Japan (22 January 1945 - 14 February 1947) with 28 Field Coy. Sapper Grant was attached to 28 Field Coy at Discharge on 11 March 1947.
Born in 1916 in Melbourne Victoria, Bill was the fourth 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.
Bill worked in Melbourne as a Labourer and Checker (Factory) prior to his service in WWII and, following his Discharge in 1947, returned to Melbourne where he worked as a Boilermaker and Labourer. Bill died in 1985.