Eldrick Stuart (Laddy) GRANT

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GRANT, Eldrick Stuart

Service Number:	NX14254
Enlisted:	7 May 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Charleville, Queensland, Australia, 26 March 1919
Home Town:	Canowindra, Cabonne, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shop Assistant
Died:	Killed in Action, Kumawa, New Guinea, 9 October 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery Cemetery/memorial reference: AA. B. 8.,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canowindra Memorial Park, Canowindra RSL Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, NX14254
7 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX14254, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
7 May 1940:	Enlisted NX14254
30 Nov 1940:	Involvement NX14254, 2nd/4th Infantry Battalion, Libya/North Africa
5 Apr 1941:	Involvement NX14254, 2nd/4th Infantry Battalion, "Operation Lustre" Greece 1941
1 Aug 1942:	Involvement NX14254, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, WIA at Tel el Eisa
9 Oct 1943:	Involvement Corporal, NX14254, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, New Guinea - Huon Peninsula / Markham and Ramu Valley /Finisterre Ranges Campaigns, Mortally wounded near Jivevaneng, New Guinea

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Biography contributed by Jeffrey Crisdale

Corporal Eldrick Stuart "Larry" Grant was a Section leader of 10 Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion. He was mortally wounded by a Japanese "Woodpecker" heavy machine gun, while leading his section in an assault up a steep, heavily defended hill near Jivevaneng, New Guinea.

(Source: Page 252 of the publication "A History of 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940-1945)

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