Campbell Grant

[watchdog]

This is one of more than twenty requests for information and help that I am hoping to post today. They are all in relation to TF soldiers who enlisted on or about the 5 August 1914 and almost all of whom survived the war. The common denominator is the fact that they were all patent examiners serving in the Patent Office prior to the outbreak of war.

Normally I would be able to pursue most of the basic work myself and would only be coming to all of you for help with the 'extras' but I am under some pressure of time. I hope you don't mind. But then again it's the sort of thing almost all of us enjoy – finding out about these men who fought in the Great War. So I'm hoping that you will appreciate the challenge.

The work is in support of my dissertation for the Birmingham MA in First World War studies and therefore if any of you do have information which might assist me I would be grateful if you could also quote the source of that information.

I'm not acting entirely blind of course and here is the information that I've already found out about Campbell Grant:

Grant attended University College Bristol and gained a B.Sc before joining the Patent Office in June 1906. He appears to have been mobilised as a trooper in 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) on or about 21 Aug 1914 and some time before 1917 had transferred to the Camel Corps. He may have been undertaking officer training in 1918. He may, or may not, have served some time in Ireland.

The sorts of information I'm hoping to glean are: Was he a pre-war territorial or did he elect to joint the territorials rather than a Kitchener unit? Any 1911 Census details. Did serve overseas with the Sharpshooters during the war? Where were their pre-war drill halls? Where did he serve whilst in the Camel Corps? Did he complete officer training and was he commissioned? And of course anything else that might occur to all of you.

Thanks

[Verrico2009]

Think this must be his MIC: Theatre is Egypt (18.4.15) and the London address of the Patent Office appears for the return of the medals. Private CofL and 2/Lieut DCLI. Medal rolls CY - Yeomanry? I note the very low number.

Name: Campbell Grant

Regiment or Corps: 3 C of L, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry

Regimental Number: 744

[watchdog]

Thank you for the confirmation that he was commisioned in to the DCLI