Howard Fraser GRANT

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Service Number:	7077
Enlisted:	6 September 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	37th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 1898
Home Town:	Chiltern, Indigo, Victoria
Schooling:	State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Mont St Quentin, France, 9 September 1918
Cemetery:	Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France Plot 1, Row I, Grave 11 Inscription on headstone reads: Duty nobly done
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bobinawarrah Hurdle Creek State School No 2536 and Residents Pictorial HR, Chiltern War Memorial Gates, Shire of Chiltern Roll of Honour, Sunbury War Memorial

6 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7077, 37th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne
23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 7077, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 7077, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
9 Sep 1918:	Involvement Private, 7077, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 7077 awm_unit: 37th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-09-09

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Son of Robert Fraser Grant and Eliza Ann Grant of 3 Manning Road, East Malvern, Victoria

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Howard Fraser Grant was born in Albury, NSW in 1898 and his NOK was his father, Robert Fraser Grant of Chiltern, later East Malvern.

He joined the AIF on 6/9/1916 in Melbourne and embarked for overseas on HMAT Hororata on 23/11/1916 as part of the 37th Battalion.

He was killed in action at Mont St Quentin on 9/9/1918 and is buried at the Roisel Community Cemetery, South of Cambrai.

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