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