Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. James Alexander Grant

British Army 4th Battalion, D Company Border Regiment

from:Newcastle upon Tyne

Jimmy Grant was called up in 1939. He underwent basic training in Carlisle, based in a tented camp at Carlisle Castle. He was posted to Malvern immediately before leaving for the Middle East, by sea via Durban. He served in the desert and relieved the Australians in Tobruk.

He was then posted to India and then Burma with the Chindits and served in a Special Glider Born Force known as Bladet.



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