HOW THE REV. W. GRANT DIED.

Grey River Argus, 23 October 1915, Page 8

HOW THE REV. W. GRANT DIED.

GISBORNE, October 20. Particulars of the death of the Rev. W. Grant, chaplain to the Forces, were received' to-day by the secretary of the Abercorn Masonic Lodge hi a letter from Sapper C. E. Stevens, formerly of the Public Works Department, Gisborne. Writing on September 6th, Sapper Stevens states : — "A peculiar position arose, as one trench was held conjointly by Australasians and Turks, divided only by a sandbag barricade, over which bombs were continually hurled by both parties, with a result that there were casualties on both sides. Bro. Grant had apparently heard that one of the boys was either killed or wounded there, so with a medical man he went round there, not knowing the Turks held a portion of the trench. The result was that the enemy fired, killing him instantly. The pity of it is that had they asked anyone in that section they could have told them that the Turks were in possession. The service was read over our Brother's remains by the Rev. Kir Bla mires, of Wanganui, who has asked some of the boys to make a wooden cross and a nice tidy grave. Our brother rests on a 'little flat about half a mile from where he fell, and I would give a great deal for. just one sprig of that emblem so well deserved in his case, for all men must say 'he did his duty.' " .