Profile

GRANT, Percy Edward
(Service number 6/3027)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	28/02/1893	Place of Birth	Duntroon, North Otago

Enlistment Information

Date	6 December 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	C/- Gas Company, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk, Gas Co Timaru
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	A Grant (father) Elizabeth Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16, Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Western Europe 1916-18
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	9 December 1954	Age	61
Place of Death	Australia
Cause	unknown
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru (as P Grant)

Biographical Notes

son of Archibald and Louisa Grant nee Simmonds (married 1870). Brother to David Grant died 7 May 1915. Married Janet Annie Bryson, 2 Aug 1917 St Giles, Bloomsberry, England. Possible child RIchard F Grant born Mar qtr 1918 St Giles, England. Returned to NZ 1919

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (March 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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