Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 177

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name HARRY OGILVY PETER GRANT (Sec Lt)

Roll Number 2633 Died 21:05:1940

Lef SES 1935

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1931

Where BATTLE OF ESCAUT, FRANCE Serving with 1ST BATT, CAMERON HIGHLANDERS

Age 23

Buried Eu Communal Cemetery, Seine-Maritime, France Remembered Dunkirk Memorial, The Urquhart & Glenmoriston Church WW2 Memorial and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born Egypt 1917, the younger of two SES brothers, from an Inverness family. A Lance Corporal in the OTC, he was in the V(c) Form on leaving. In 1939 he enlisted in the 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders and the next year was posted to France as part of the BEF contingent. He was killed in action in mid May during the retreat on Dunkirk at the Battle of Escaut, during a fierce rear-guard action thought to have been the last chance to stem the German ‘Blitzkrieg’ (it failed).