Other Information:Pte Grant was one of a quota of N.C.O.’s and men, known as 'Special Reserve', to transfer from the 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance to serve with the Expeditionary Force. On 6th August 1914, he transferred from the 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance to serve with the Expeditionary Force, and marched alongside Captain Greene, and the detachment, to a field adjoining Monockton’s Mill, Sandling Road, Maidstone, which had become the mobilization headquarters of No 10 Field Ambulance. He entered the war with the 10th Field Ambulance on 23rd August 1914. He later received promotion to the rank of Serjeant. He transferred back to the 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance on 5th March 1916.
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