Lewis Leonard GRANT

GRANT, Lewis Leonard

Service Number: 449
Enlisted: 16 September 1914, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
Born: Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey, Inverallan, Scotland, 1890
Home Town: Allansford, Warrnambool, Victoria
Schooling: Fintry School, Scotland
Occupation: Farm labourer
Died: Died of wounds, At sea aboard Hospital Ship Maheno, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 30 August 1915
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Buried at Sea-commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Panel 40 , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Allansford Memorial Pavilion, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 24 and the son of Lewis and Jessie Grant, of Police Station, Fintry, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is remembered on the Grantown-on-Spey War Memorial.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He is one of 3 Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Dulnain Bridge War Memorial, near Grantown on Spey.

Dulnain Bridge is a village in Strathspey, next to the meeting of the River Dulnain and the River Spey, three miles south-west of Grantown-on-Spey, in the Scottish Highlands and the Highland council area.