Howard Rupert DE GRANT

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DE GRANT, Howard Rupert

Service Number:	QX17045
Enlisted:	20 July 1940, Kelvin Grove, Queensland
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2 February 1908
Home Town:	Beaudesert, Scenic Rim, Queensland
Schooling:	Christian Brothers School, Queensland
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Illness, Thailand, 20 September 1943, aged 35 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery 1 M 37
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Beaudesert War Memorial, Nar Nar Goon Commerical Bank of Australia Limited WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, QX17045, 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Kelvin Grove, Queensland
20 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, QX17045
20 Sep 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Howard Rupert DE GRANT was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 2nd February, 1908

His parents were Leslie DE GRANT & Selina Elizabeth BROOKES

He died in from Illness in Thailand on 20th September, 1943 - last Rank & Unit was a Sergeant with the 2nd/3rd Ordnance Stores Company - He was a prisoner of War of the Japanese and held in Camp in Malaya

His headstone reads:

'DEARLY LOVED & SADLY MISSED BY MOTHER, BROTHERS & SISTERS'

Howard is buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

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His brother Leslie Brisbane DE GRANT (SN 2414) served in the Army during WW1 and returned to Australia in 1919 - he also served during WW2 (SN Q124557) as a Captain in the Army with the 1st Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps

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