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GRANT, Andrew
(Service number 10815)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	20/11/1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Elloughton Grange, Tmaru
Occupation	Shepherd
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs W. GRANT (mother), Elloughton Grange, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	1st New Zealand Cyclist Company
Date	6 May 1916
Transport	Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

Sheepfarmer

Death

Date	8 June 1954	Age	58 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 34, Plot 354
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Andrew was the youngest son of William and Elizabeth Helen (née Allan) Grant. His brother, Robert Allan Grant, was a cadet with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917-1918.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 June 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [28 June 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [29 June 2017]

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