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GRANT, John
(Service number 40803)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	7 February 1888	Place of Birth	Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	30 October 1916	Age	28 years
Address at Enlistment	C. J. Talbot, Fairlie
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William D. GRANT (father), Hoggbridge, Peebles, Scotland. Also C. J. TALBOT (friend), Tahuna, Fairlie
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	23rd Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	2 April 1917
Transport	Corinthic
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

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Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

Date	17 September 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

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Death

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Biographical Notes

John Grant was born on 7 February 1888 at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, the eldest son of William Downie and Elizabeth (née Angus) Grant. John and his older sister, Elizabeth, were at home with their parents at Arden, Dumbartonshire, in 1891. Both were still at home in 1901, John a scholar, but the family, with four more children, was at “Hoggbridge”, Peebles, Peeblesshire. When John enlisted with the New Zealand Forces on 30 October 1916 at Timaru, he was single and Presbyterian. A farm hand for C. J. Talbot, Fairlie, he named his father as next-of-kin – William D. Grant, Hoggbridge, Peebles. He also recorded his friend – C. J. Talbot, Tahuna, Fairlie.

Private J. Grant embarked with the Canterbury Infantry Regiment of the 23rd Reinforcements, leaving for Plymouth, England, by the “Corinthic” on 2 April 1917. One of 968 men in Returning Draft No. 273, J. Grant, of Fairlie, returned to New Zealand by the “Somerset” which was due at Lyttelton on or about 12 August 1919. He was discharged on 17 September 1919.

His father died on 20 April 1938 at Helensburgh and was buried in St Andrews Cemetery, Peebles. His mother was buried there in 1953, their daughter Elizabeth in 1969 and their daughter Mary in 1905.

What became of John Grant?

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 August 2021]; 1891 & 1901 census returns for Scotland (ancestry.com.au) [12 August 2021]; Otago Daily Times, 6 August 1919 [08 August 2021]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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