Robert Thomas GRANT

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GRANT, Robert Thomas

Service Number:	V361387
Enlisted:	4 June 1942
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	20th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 16 March 1887
Home Town:	Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 30 August 1964, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maddingly (Bacchus Marsh) General Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

4 Jun 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V361387
31 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, V361387, 20th (VIC) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lieutenant Robert Thomas Grant (Service No:V361387) enlisted in the ACMF on 4 June 1942 and was attached to 20 Battalion VDC when he was Discharged on 31 October 1945. He enlisted as a Private and on 2 July 1943 was appointed Lieutenant. He had served in WWI (Lance Corporal; Service No:4196) and was a PoW in Germany.

Born in 1887 in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, Tom was the sixth of eight children of William Grant (b1850 at Western Port, Victoria) and Betsy McDonald (b1851 in Scotland) - Betsy had emigrated with her parents and siblings in 1852, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Marco Polo. William (a Farmer at Bacchus Marsh) and Betsy married in 1878 at Parwon in Moorabool, Victoria and settled at Bacchus Marsh where they raised their family and William was a Farmer.

Tom was a Farmer in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria in 1926 when he married Emma (Emmie) St Clare Bartley (b1891 in Ballarat, Victoria) - Emmie was a Nurse in Melbourne, Victoria. Tom and Emmie settled in Bacchus Marsh where Tom was a Farmer. Tom died in 1964 and Emmie in 1973.

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