Ian Lyall Grant (1915–2020)

Major-General Ian Lyall Grant, MC, MA was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1935. In 1938 he was posted out to India to join KGV's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners. After three years in India, half spent on the North-West Frontier, he raised a new Sapper and Miner field company in late 1941. afficher plus With them he sailed for Burma in March 1942 and joined the 17th Indian Division outside Rangoon. He remained with this division until July 1944 and took part both in the 1942 retreat and in the campaign described in this book. After the war he served for ten months with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan before returning to Britain. He retired from the British Army in 1970. Later he spent five years in the Civil Service as an under-secretary, five years as a defence consultant and ten years as a gemmologist. He now lives in Chichester. afficher moins