Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. A. Grant, Cheshire Regiment, late Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 5 November 1918.

British War and Victory Medals (23771 Pte. J. A. Grant. R. Berks. R.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated ‘1914-1916’; Memorial Plaque (John Augustus Grant) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

John Augustus Grant was born in 1897 at Boyn Hill, Maidenhead, Berkshire. He attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 11 February 1916 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion on 25 August 1916, arriving with them on the Western Front on 8 December 1916. He suffered a gun shot wound to the head on 12 November 1917 and returned to England, receiving treatment at Coulter Hospital in London. He was discharged to furlough at the Command Depot and upon his recuperation he returned to his Battalion in France, immediately transferring to the 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. On 23 June 1916 he was posted to the 9th Cheshires and was serving with them when he died of wounds received in action on 5 November 1918. He is buried in Awoingt British Cemetery, France.

A Croix de Guerre was listed among the articles of private property belonging to Private Grant forwarded by the Officer in charge of Infantry Records to his mother, Kate Grant, on 3 April 1919.