GRANT, Harry Sutherland
Service Number: | 3149 |
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Enlisted: | 24 October 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 58th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
Home Town: | Bacchus Marsh, Moorabool, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, 26 December 1936, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Bacchus Marsh Australian Natives Association Roll of Honor |
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Harry Sutherland Grant (Service No:3149) enlisted in the AIF on 24 October 1916 and was attached to 58th Infantry Battalion 8th Reinforcements when he embarked from Melbourne on 16 December 1916 aboard HMAT A7 Medic bound for Plymouth. In July 1917 Private Grant embarked from England for France where he was hospitalised on two occasions with defective hearing and once for appendicitis. On 9 December 1918 Private Grant embarked from England on board HT Argyllshire and was Discharged (medical) on 9 March 1919. Brother Robert (Lance Corporal; Service No:4196) also served in WWI and was a PoW in Germany.
Born in 1890 in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, Harry was the seventh of eight children of William Grant Snr (b1850 at Western Port, Victoria) and Betsy McDonald (b1851 in Scotland) - Betsy emigrated with her parents and siblings in 1852, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Marco Polo. William (a Farmer) and Betsy married in 1878 at Parwan in Moorabool, Victoria and settled at Bacchus Marsh where they raised their family and William was a Farmer.
Harry worked as a Factory Hand in Bacchus Marsh before becoming a Farmer. In 1919 he was a Farmer when he married Ruby May West (b1896 in St James, Victoria) at Burrumdale in Colbinabbin, Victoria. Harry and Ruby settled at 'Millbank' in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria where Harry was Farmer. Harry died in 1936 and Ruby remained in Bacchus Marsh where she remarried in 1957.