Private Henry Sealy GRANT (8275)
1st Regiment South African Infantry

Date of birth: 5th May 1883
Date of death: 27th February 1917

Killed in action aged 33
Buried at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery Arras Plot II Row E Grave 1
Henry Sealy Grant was born at North College, Elgin on the 5th of May 1883 the son of Henry Alexander Grant JP DL, a gentleman, and Mary Jane Grant (nee Jackson) of Wester Elchies, Aberlour.

He served in the Boer War following which he became a prospector. He joined the South African Infantry in 1914 and served under Botha in German West Africa between September 1914 and July 1915.

At the time of his death he was serving in a machine gun section in charge of a Lewis Gun team. He was killed by a shell during a heavy bombardment.

He wrote to his VAD sister a week before he was killed: -

"...It is raining again but rheumatism doesn't count as sickness in this army... The perpetual strain of waiting for something to hit you tells on the nerves after a time. Every time I get straffed I feel less anxious to be straffed again. At first I did not feel it and treated shrapnel with contempt, but I don't now..."
Wester Elchies

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