Regimental number | 719 |
Place of birth | Melbourne Victoria |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | 438 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 30 |
Next of kin | Father, T.W. Grayson, 438 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 4th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/9/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A13 Katuna on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 9 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Thomas and Lilly GRAYSON (nee White), Central Wharf, Millers Point, New South Wales. Native of Williamstown, Victoria |
Medals |
Distinguished Conduct Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. After a severe fall with his horse into a shell hole, from which he ews extricated with great difficulty, he went on after his detachment carrying his Kotchkiss rifle, which he brought into action in time to stop a hostile field gun from being withdrawn. He was badly bruised and shaken, and showed a fine example of pluck and determination.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 219 Date: |