GRANT, John Alexander
| Service Numbers: | 1735, 1735A |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Elgin, Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 23 January 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Grave O. IV. D. 12. INSCRIPTION CHRIST IS THERE TO WATCH AND CARE FORGET THEE WE NEVER WILL , St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France, Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 1735, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 1735, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 23 Jan 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1735A, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1735A awm_unit: 45 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-01-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
45th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 27 and the son of John and Annie Grant, of Duackside, Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He had connections with Inverallan.
He is one of 13 Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Grantown on Spey War Memorial.
Grantown-on-Spey (Scottish Gaelic: Baile nan Granndach) is a town in the Highland Council Area, historically within the county of Moray. It was founded in 1765 as a planned settlement on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles south-east of Inverness.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of 3 Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Dulnain Bridge War Memorial, near Grantown on Spey.
Dulnain Bridge is a village in Strathspey, next to the meeting of the River Dulnain and the River Spey, three miles south-west of Grantown-on-Spey, in the Scottish Highlands and the Highland council area.
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