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Private Percival Grant

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Percival Lindsay Grant

Ancestor's date of birth: 07/05/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 04/09/1965

Cause of Death: Heart Failure

Service Number: 1357

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Goldburn

Unit: 2nd NSW Mounted Rifles B Squadron

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): SGT, Date Effective: 1914-1918

Murray Page: 115

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Custodian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 17/03/1901

Memorial details: War Memorial Goulburn NSW

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with 5 clasps Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony, SA1901, SA1902. Belgian Croix de Guerre in WW1 with NZ Rifle Brigade. Palestine and France-Flanders.

Personal Characteristics: Quiet, unassuming, good horseman.

Reasons to go and fight: Seemed like a good idea at the time

Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in west then east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: While working in New Zealand as a Chauffeur he enlisted in the NZEF and later the NZ Rifle Brigade, served in Palestine and France-Flanders.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Kerrel Moor, Orange NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

Name of Descendant: Joan Isabel Brown (Nee Grant), Goulburn NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

 


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