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VC1057 John Gildroy Grant
Name John Gildroy Grant No.
VC Issue No. 1057 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Hawera, Wellington, New Zealand
Place Of Death Roskill Masonic Village, Auckland, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Golders Cemetery, Waikumete, New Zealand
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 27 November 1970
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Block M, Section 9, Plot 95
Gazetted 27 November 1918
VC Presented 26 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Golders Cemetery, Waikumete, New Zealand
Memorial Plaque, Wall of Remembrance, Waikumete Memorial Park, New Zealand
Named on Commemorative Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Named on Memorial, Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
Grant VC Avenue, Hawera, Wellington, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Anzac Square, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Statue, Victoria Cross Gardens, Hawera, New Zealand
By The Way…
His VC was one of several stolen from the Army War Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand in December 2007. After an appeal to the criminal underworld, the medals were recovered
VC Held By
Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand
BORN 26 August 1889
DIED 25 November 1970 AGE 81
VC Won 1 September 1918 AGE 29
Place VC Won East of Bancourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
