The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Captain R W Grant

Photographs by Chris Doran 7th May 2017

Captain Reginald Walter GRANT, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 26th November 1918, age 42.

6th May 1876, born at Norwood, Son of Alexander and Marion Grant (nee Stirling), "Wyndcliffe", Shooters Way Lane, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

20th September 1906, All Saints with St Margaret, Upper Norwood, Surrey, Reginald Walter Grant, age 30, bachelor, merchant, Beulah Spa, Norwood, father Alexander Grant, deceased, merchant, married Florence Mabel Schilling, age 32, spinster, 58 Crystal Palace Park Road, Sydenham, father George Schilling, deceased, Gentleman.

1911 Census - Stoney Hurst, Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, Sussex - Reginald Walter Grant, head, age 37, married, Private Means, born Upper Norwood, Surrey; Florence Mabel Grant, wife, age 35, married 5 years, 1 child, born Brampton Ash, Northamptonshire; Dorothy Joan Grant, daughter, age 3, born Oxfordshire; Mary Jane Chennell, age 27, single, cook domestic, born Warnham, Sussex; Rosalind Lizzie Ottley, age 18, single, housemaid, born Warnham, Surrey.

1st September 1915, BEF; 26th September 1915, Loos, wounded; September 1916 to November 1916, Salonica.

12th May 1919, Probate - Reginald Walter Grant, of 20 Dunstan's Hill, London, died 26th November 1918, at 3 Randolph Road, Maida Vale, Middlesex. Probate London 12th May to Florence Mabel Grant, widow. Effects £209 1s.

Buried at Paddington Cemetery, 1 E. 15077. Commemorated at Brighton College. Commemorated on Warnham War Memorial.

London Gazette 8th March 1916.

Royal West Kent Regiment. - Temporary Captain R. W. Grant, from a Service Battalion, to be temporary Captain. Dated 4th February, 1916, but with seniority from 22nd September, 1914.

London Gazette 21st November 1916.

The under mentioned temporary Captains, from Reserve Battalions, to be temporary Captains (attached). 1st September 1916, retaining their Army seniority: R. W. Grant.

London Gazette 8th August 1918.

Royal West Kent Regiment. - Temporary Captain R W Grant, from Training Reserve to be temporary Captain. 20th February 1918, with seniority 22nd September 1914.

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