GREWAR, Alexander
| Service Number: | 6343 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Caulfield, Glen Eira, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 16 September 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium Grave V. C. 11. INSCRIPTION HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE , Hooge Crater Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6343, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6343, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 34 and the son of John Low Grewar and Mary Grewar, of Broomfield, Montrose, Scotland.
He is one of seven Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Montrose War Memorial. There are at least the same number of Montrose born Australian soldiers who fell and are not recorded there.
Montrose (Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers. It is the northernmost coastal town in Angus and developed at a natural harbour that traded in skins, hides and cured salmon in medieval times.
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