Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
Year of Warrant 1847
Westgate Road Newcastle on Tyne
2nd Lieutenant John GRANT
Durham Light Infantry 5th Battalion
Attached Machine Gun Corps
The son of John and Ann Grant of 21 Saltwell Road, Gateshead, County Durham. A Bookbinder he was Initiated on the 19th May 1916; Passed 23rd June 1916 and Raised on the 15th September 1916. He died of influenza at the Salonika-Hortakoi Road Hospital on the 24th November 1918 aged 29. He is buried in the Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece, Grave Reference 497.
John Grant is remembered at Gateshead on page 59 of G39.004 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 321
