James Grant
I mate atu i te 11 Aug 1917
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20140 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Rifleman AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- James AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Grant AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20140 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Mrs M.L. Grant (mother), 20 Waterloo Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20140 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Storeman/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 10th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- James Grant was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Grant, of 29 Picton Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand. AWMM
- Born 17 March 1894, James was the eldest son of James Alexander Grant, of Scottish heritage, and Marie-Lucie Clolus who was French. When his father James met Marie-Lucie in Wellington she had been married to a Samuel Whiteside who had left her destitute with five children. James supported Marie-Lucie and her children and together added to the family with 3 more girls and 5 boys: Christina, James, William, Joseph, Aleck, Jessie, Victor and Annie.
James had been a member of the NZ Territorial Engineers before enlisting on 1 May 1916 and then retrained at Trentham, Upper Hutt.
The reserve battalion embarked from Wellington on 19 August 1916 on the NZ Troop Ship Aparima (61) and arrived at Devonport, Devon, England on 24 October 1916. They went straight to Sling camp for a short training stint and left for France on 15 November, marching to Etaples on the 16th. He joined B Company, 3rd Battalion in the field on 7 December 1916. He managed to lose a days pay the next January for being on parade with a dirty rifle, then a weeks pay in May for being 'out of divisional area'. A week after that he was granted two weeks leave in France, returning on 28 May 1917 to prepare for front line duty.
By 20 April 1917 the New Zealanders were back in the vicinity of Messines in readiness for their part in the coming attack that was the Third Battle of Ypres.
On the 4th August 1917, the 3rd Battalion came onto the line in the Warneton Sector, taking over from the Australians in the area north of the River Douve. The winter weather continued to be wet and cold with rain nearly every day, turning the ground into a bog with shell holes full of water. Communications had been destroyed by shelling, and the front line trenches were mostly thigh deep in mud with very little shelter.
Relief arrived for the 3rd Battalion but was too late to save James Grant. He was killed in action on the 11 August. He was first buried near where he died, the directions to the location, south-west of Messines, were noted on his war records. His body was later located and identified. His final resting place is in the Wulverghen-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.
The British War Medal, the Victory Medal, Memorial Plaque and Scroll were posted to his mother in 1923.
An alleged child is listed on his war records named Patrick James, born 19 March 1917 along with the mother's name of Millie Hayden. A son, Joseph Patrick James, was born to Imelda Maud Dorothea Hayden on this date but the father's name is not recorded, neither is a marriage. Imelda married William John Berg in 1919. They had at least two more children: Mary Teresa Maureen, born 1919, and Veronica Cynthia, born 1922. Patrick Hayden married Jessie Helen Anderson in 1939.
Two of his brothers also enlisted. William Grant, No 13753, 3rd NZ Rifle Battalion, served in France and returned in 1917. Alexander (Aleck) Grant, No 67741, remained at the camp at Tauherenikau, Wairarapa, due to poor health .Public - Stephen - Other relative - 10 April 2022 - Family research, Military papers, on-line research.
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 11 Aug 1917 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II B. 3. AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16788071
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/450338/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/450338
Further Reference - Passchendaele Museum Profile
https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/7730
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
- Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
38: 30 - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 3: Includes portrait - HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
- Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
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