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James Grant

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Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 38), Page: 30 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 38), Page: 30 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    James AWMM
  • Surname
    Grant AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 20140 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
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  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs M.L. Grant (mother), 20 Waterloo Avenue, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
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Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1917 Passchendaele AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 20140 AWMM
  • Military service
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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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    WW1 Unknown AWMM Storeman/Civilian AWMM
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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
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Medical history

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    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

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Biographical information

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    • 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.
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Death

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  • Death
    11 August 1917 AWMM
    Ypres, Belgium AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II B. 3. AWMM
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22 April 2022SteveWellington, New ZealandOther relative
10 April 2022StephenWellington, New ZealandOther relative

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