Name
Ernest Arnold Grant
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
62200
Royal Fusiliers *1
4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
II. J. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Thy will be done
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin,
Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Frederick and Amelia Grant, of 51, Queen St., Hitchin, Herts. and he attended Hitchin British Boys' School.
He was unmarried. His father was a painter and plumber. Ernest was a resident of Hitchin and before enlisting in Chelsea had worked in the Hitchin shoe-shop of Freeman, Hardy & Willis. Another son was Leonard Percy Grant and the fourth son, Don, were in the Fire Service in Hitchin, which included service during the Second World War. The family attended the Bethel Chapel in Queen St. Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He joined up with his elder brother, Bertram F. Grant, into the 3/1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Huzzars) in November 1915 with the Regimental Number 4600. For six months they were stationed in Ireland at the Curragh, during which time the unit was dismounted. In December 1916 the brothers went to France and were transferred to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, but in different Companies, though they were able to see each other most days.
His Regimental Number in the Royal Fusiliers was G/62200. The Battalion was part of the 9th Brigade in the 3rd Division of VI Corps in the 3rd Army. At the time of his death, the Battalion had been fighting in the region of the River Ancre and had recently moved to a position immediately south of Arras where they were about to take part in the First Battle of the Scarpe. Bert wrote home that Ernie had been killed by a shell and that his death was instantaneous.
He was buried the next day and his grave is in Plot 2, Row J, Grave 7 in the Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery in Arras in France.
Additional Information
A private inscription on the headstone reads "Thy will be done". Ernest is also commemorated on a headstone is Hitchin Cemetery. His inscription reads:
In Ever Loving Remembrance of
ERNEST ARNOLD
THE BELOVED SO OF
F. M. GRANT WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE MARCH 21ST 1917, AGED 21 YEARS
"THY WILL BE DONE."
ERNEST ARNOLD
THE BELOVED SO OF
F. M. GRANT WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE MARCH 21ST 1917, AGED 21 YEARS
"THY WILL BE DONE."
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal
Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
