Daniel Grant

Title

Private

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Forenames

Daniel AWMM

Surname

Grant AWMM

Service number

WWI 25230 AWMM

Gender

• Male AWMM
• Male
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Religion

Church of England

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Birth

19 Dec 1894 Public Source

Date of birth

19 Dec 1894

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Place of birth

Tokomaru Bay

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Birth notes

Son of James and Reremoana Grant

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Address before enlistment

Tokomaru Bay

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Next of kin

Mrs Raniera Pewhairangi (aunt), Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Western European

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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• 14th Reinforcements NZ Auckland Regt
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Service number

WWI 25230 AWMM

Military service

Mar 1916-Dec 1916

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Medals and Awards

British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 504924

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Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• 17 March 1916 at Featherston
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Age on enlistment

21yrs

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Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916-22 Aug 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 14th Reinforcements, J Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of injuries AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

19 Dec 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Estaires Communal Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM III. I. 10. AWMM

Obituary

Private Daniel Grant, who left Gisborne with one of the early Maori reinforcements, is reported to have died of wounds on December 19. He was a nephew of. Mrs Pewhairangi of Tokomaru Bay

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POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIV, ISSUE 14187, 3 JANUARY 1917, PAGE

Memorial name

Tokomaru Bay War Memorial
Gisborne's War Memorial

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Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16788032
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/268211/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/268211
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 56 - The kit-bag : the unofficial record of the following units of the Fourteenth Reinforcements on board the "Maunganui", Troopship 56 -- Cape Town : Printed by Cape Times : 1916.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 17
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.