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Kenneth Grant
9510, Serjeant, 5th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Killed in action, 9 April 1917, aged 25
Buried at Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, Arras, France
CWGC registered (Miss P Grant, 64 Ruskin Buildings, Millbank, SW1)
Kenneth Grant was born in Rhyl on 16 May 1891, just missing being recorded in the census for that year. He was the son of the landscape artist (Thomas) Carleton Grant (b Liverpool, 1858) and his wife Charlotte Maria (née Roberts, b Llandudno, 1869). Before getting married, Carleton Grant had lived with his widowed mother in Llandudno. The family later lived at Oxford and at Marlow. Both Carleton and Charlotte Grant died in 1899 on the Isle of Wight at the residence of Carleton’s sister Florence. The Census for 1901 records both Kenneth (9) and his sister Phyllis (4) living with their widowed aunt Florence Hague and her son, Douglas Carleton Hague (9) at Shanklin. Kenneth made the headlines later that year for rescuing two boys on Shanklin Beach. Between September 1907 and August 1909, Kenneth spent a time as a boy sailor in the Royal Navy – his number was 366214. He was discharged as being unfit. In 1911, Florence, Douglas and Kenneth were living in Oxford; Kenneth was described as a house decorator painter.
Kenneth Grant’s army record no longer exists. He served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (OBLI) with a regimental number of 9510. It is not known when he enlisted but it is recorded that soldier 9512 enlisted on 25 September 1914. Kenneth Grant’s battalion was the 5th (Service) Battalion OBLI that formed in August 1914 at Oxford as part of Kitchener’s 1st New Army. Kenneth Grant was a private when the battalion landed at Boulogne on 21 May 1915 and was in France when he achieved the rank of serjeant.
Kenneth Grant was killed in action on the attack on Telegraph Redoubt on 9 April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras. He was aged 25 and buried near where he fell but was later reinterred at Tilloy British Cemetery. Kenneth Grant was not married and his effects were received by his sister Phyllis.
Known memorials:
- Llandudno Roll of Honour
- Llandudno War Memorial
- Memorial Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno
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