GRANT Clifton Brown Capt

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Surname: GRANT;

Forename(s): Clifton Brown;

Initials: CB;

Rank: Capt;

Born in: Kiltarlity, Inverness;

Resided in: Warnham;

Previous Battalion: 22 of;

Previous Regiment: R Fus;

Date of transfer to MGC: 29-Feb-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 99 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 27-Jul-1916;

Awarded: MID;

Other Data: The Graphic - Portrait
From "The Somme 1914-18 - a study in history around us" Leslie Coate - details of death in West Sussex County Times 12/8/1916 - letter from 2/Lt C Stone "….(Delville Wood) a terrible day, amd place and all who were there spoke in glowing terms of Capt Grant, who was here, there and everywhere,helping everyone unperturbed and cool as ever, although he knew before he started that it was almost certain death…. Of his nine or ten officers, only one came back. Capt Grant was beloved by all the Battalion. He combined extraordinary ability in his work with a wonderful coolness in danger…I needn't tell you what a fine and gallant fellow he was"

See book "Wartnham & the Great War" (2014) published by The Warnham Society;

Other Notes: GRANT, Captain, CLIFTON BROWN, Mentioned in Despatches, 99th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 27th July 1916. Age 22. Son of Jessie Grant, of The Firs, Warnham, Sussex, and the late J. B. Grant. XX. A. 8. Serre Road Cemetery No. 2 - Somme, France.
MID: LG 4/1/1917 (dated 13/11/1916);

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