John Duncan Grant Military person

Colonel John Duncan Grant VC, CB, DSO (28 December 1877 – 20 February 1967) was a British Indian Army officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Personal facts

John Duncan Grant
Birth dateDecember 28, 1877
Birth place
Roorkee , Presidencies and provinces of British India
Date of deathFebruary 20, 1967
Place of death
Kent , Royal Tunbridge Wells

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Military person

award
Order of the Bath
Mentioned in dispatches
Victoria Cross
Distinguished Service Order
military operations
Third Anglo-Afghan War
British expedition to Tibet
World War I
Waziristan campaign (1919–20)
military branch
British Indian Army
military unit
Indian Staff Corps
8 Gorkha Rifles
service start1898
service end1929

John Duncan Grant on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/OC_victoria_crosses.html
  2. http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/kent.htm
  3. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U48559