Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookh African campaign, he returned with his Battn. to England, but after two years in various stations in Scotland and Ireland, offered himself for foreign service and was sent to the 2nd Battn. then doing duty in Natal. He afterwards accompanied his regiment to China, and from there to Bangalore, India, and was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal). On the outbreak of the European War he held the rank of Coy. Sergt.-Major, being stationed near Poona, and before leaving India was offered a commission in his own company, which he accepted and was gazetted, 14 Dec. 1914, proceeding to France about a week later. He was killed by a shell during the bombardment of Hill 60, Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres, Belgium; _unm._ Lieut. Grant was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. [Illustration: =Duncan Grant.=] =GRANT, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3311, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of William James Grant, of 7, Courtfield Mews, Courtfield Gardens, South Kensington, Private Chauffeur, by his wife, Alice Louisa; _b._ London, 16 June, 1896; enlisted 17 Dec. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in the trenches, 3 May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Salta during the crossing from France, 19 May following. He was buried in the military cemetery at Netley. Before joining he remarked to his mother: "I am not quite military age, but I have thought a lot about this war, and I feel it my duty to go, as I am a big, strong boy, and there will be plenty that can't go." His elder brother served in the 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. with the British Expeditionary Force in France. [Illustration: =Ernest William Grant.=] =GRANT, HAROLD CHARLES=, Private, No. 2553, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of James Duff Grant, of 63, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.; _b._ Highbury, 9 June, 1883; educ. Crouch End School; was a Clerk with Messrs. Leslie Booth & Booth, Chartered Accountants [both partners, W. L. Booth and A. M. Booth, were Territorial officers, and both were killed in action]; after the outbreak of war, enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar, and then to France, and died in a Field Hospital near Sailly, 16 June, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. His Platoon Officer wrote: "Your son was hit in the head on Thursday morning and became unconscious. He died in hospital at 10 o'clock on Friday morning, never having regained consciousness.... I shall never be able to replace your son in my platoon"; and the Chaplain (the Rev. Richard Griffiths): "We buried him this afternoon [near Sailly] in a little soldiers' cemetery with pretty green hedges around it, and a little orchard beyond." He was _unm._ [Illustration: =Harold Charles Grant.=] =GRANT, JAMES=, Drummer, No. 976, 13th (Princess Louise's Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th _s._ of James Albert Grant, of 131, Kilburn Lane, Willesden, N.W., by his wife, Anne, dau. of (----) Clark; _b._ Kensington, W.; educ. Board School, Buckingham Terrace, Kensington, W.; was a keen member of the Cadet movement, and was a Lieut. in the Knightsbridge (St. Paul's) Co.; joined the Kensingtons on the organisation of the Territorial Force; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; left for the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ =GRANT, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2243, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Grant, of 61, Albany Road, Brentford, Hawker; _b._ Brentford, co. Middlesex, 5 Nov. 1894; educ. St. John's School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials in March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service and mobilized 6 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action there, 11 May, 1915; _unm._ =GRANT, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6993), 196834, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GRATTAGE, SAMUEL THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10246), 299157, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GRAVETT, CHARLES DAVID=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex 1/334), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of George Gravett, of 19, Coleridge Street, Hove; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =GRAY, ALBERT JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 22930, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GRAY, JAMES=, Major, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), _s._ of the late Robert Sclater Gray, of Leechman and Gray, Leith, Distiller and Wine Broker, by his wife, Barbara Mann, dau. of (----) Peterson; _b._ 22 March, 1875; educ. Royal High School, Edinburgh, and was a Wine Broker and Distiller. He joined the old 5th Highland Coy. of the Queen's Edinburgh Rifles, afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, in 1891, and received his commission in 1896; was promoted Lieut., 1898, and Capt., 1901, and Major, 1 May, 1913, after which he was placed in the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service; left for Egypt 19 May; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, when 2nd in command of his Battn. 28 June, 1915. Buried at Krithia. Colonel Younger, late Commanding Officer 4th Battn. Royal Scots, wrote: "None but myself can know how large a part James Gray played in the training of the Battn. in the first few months of the war. Only those who have had the experience can know the trials and difficulties which Territorial Commanding Officers were faced with on suddenly becoming professional soldiers. The help and strength I received from Major Gray were beyond all praise." Major Gray had the Coronation Medal and the Long Service Medal. He _m._ at St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh, 4 Jan. 1912, Grace E. (28, Scotland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of the late Robert Naismith, of Leith; _s.p._ [Illustration: =James Gray.=] =GRAY, MARY SUTHERLAND BROWN=, Sister in charge of a Ward, Hospital Auxilliare 301, Abbaye de Royaumont, dau. of James Gray, of Oakleigh Lodge, Leven, Fife, Secretary of the Fife Coal Co., by his wife, Mary Sutherland, dau. of William Brown, Manager of the Colliery of Oakley, near Dunfermline; _b._ Oakleigh, Dunfermline, 17 Nov. 1869; educ. privately in Scotland and then trained as a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; and after leaving there nursed among the working classes at Kilmarnock and later at Crief; on the outbreak of the European War she went to France with her sister, Miss Margaret Gray, in Nov. 1914, and helped to found the Scottish Women's Hospital for French wounded soldiers at Royaumont Abbey, Seine et Oise, and died there while engaged in her duties, 25 Jan. 1916. The Secretary of the Hospital, Miss Cicely Hamilton, wrote: "She was essentially a woman of character, a humorous, brave individual, a woman who over-worked with a smile and wore herself out as if the process amused her. She laughe |