DULNAIN BRIDGE - SCOTLAND
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Lance Corporal John Alexander GRANT 1735
Born: Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland Enlisted: 4-9-1915, Holdsworthy, New South Wales Occupation prior to Enlistment: Labourer Died of Wounds 23-1-1917 aged 27years 45th Battalion Australian Infantry Son of John and Annie Grant, of Duackside, Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Resting: St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 139 |
Sergeant Louis / Lewis GRANT 449
Native of Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey. Enlisted: 10-9-1914, Melbourne, Victoria Occupation prior to Enlistment: Labourer 14th Battalion Australian Infantry Died of Wounds on board Hospital Ship "Maheno" 30-8-1915 aged 24years Buried at Sea 31-8-1915 Son of Lewis and Jessie Grant, of Police Station, Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland Honoured: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 72 Also Honoured Fintry Kirk Memorial |
Stirling Observer 2-10-1915
DIED for the CAUSE
The grim reality of war has been borne in upon us by the news of the death of Corporal Lewis Grant, D Company, 14th Battalion, 4th A.I.F., Infantry Brigade. About five years ago Corporal Grant left his country to try his hand in Australia. He was proving a promising Colonist when the call to arms came to him and at once he enlisted to assist the Motherland. He was sent with his regiment to the Dardanelles and only recently wrote saying he had been wounded in the shoulder, but that was healing all right. Word, however was received from a comrade on Tuesday last to say that he had peacefully passed away on the voyage to Malta and was buried at sea. While he resided in Fintry, deceased made many friends, being prominent both as a football player and member of the Rifle Club. Much sympathy is felt in the district for his sorrowing parents. This is the first direct casualty in our district and it has brought home to us more and more the serious nature of the task that dies before nation.
Stirling Observer 9-10-1915
Fintry Australian Dies of Wounds
Private Lewis Grant, son of Constable Lewis Grant, Fintry, Stirlingshire, died at sea on September 2nd after being wounded at the Dardanelles. Private Grant who was about 24years of age, emigrated to Australia about five years ago and he joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being sent to Egypt and later to the Dardanelles. When resident in Fintry the deceased was a prominent personality in football and other sports.
Corporal Alexander McINTOSH 1694
Born: Scotland Enlisted: 1-2-1916, Cootamundra, New South Wales Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farmer 56th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action 2-4-1917, France aged 30years Son of Mrs A McIntosh of Ladysturn, Dulnain Bridge, Grantown on Spey, Scotland. Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 162 |
Photo of Villers Bretonneux Panel - R & S
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