Ian Lyall Grant

Ian Hallam Lyall Grant
Born(1915-06-04)4 June 1915
Died29 February 2020(2020-02-29) (aged 104)
Chichester, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1935–1970
RankMajor-General
UnitRoyal Engineers
Battles / warsSecond World War
AwardsMilitary Cross

Major-General Ian Hallam Lyall Grant MC (4 June 1915 – 29 February 2020) was a British army officer, engineer and government official. He wrote two books based on his experience in the Burma campaign during World War II.

Career

Lyall Grant was commissioned in the Royal Engineers on 31 January 1935,[1]

Later life and death

Major-General Ian Hallam Lyall Grant died at age 104 in a care home in Chichester.[2][3]

Books

  • Burma: The Turning Point[4][5]
  • Burma 1942: the Japanese invasion; both sides tell the story of a savage jungle war[6]

References

  1. ^ "No. 34129". The London Gazette. 1 February 1935. p. 772.
  2. ^ "Major-General Ian Lyall Grant obituary". The Times. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Major General Ian Lyall Grant, commander of engineers in Burma who reconnoitred and built tracks for troops while under enemy fire – obituary". The Telegraph. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  4. ^ Lyall Grant, Ian (2003). Burma: the turning point; the seven battles on the Tiddim Road which turned the tide of the Burma War. Leo Cooper. ISBN 1-84415-026-7. OCLC 249366552.
  5. ^ Callahan, Raymond (January 1995). "Burma: The Turning Point. (book review)". The Journal of Military History. 59 (1): 169. doi:10.2307/2944389. ISSN 0899-3718. JSTOR 2944389.
  6. ^ Lyall Grant, Ian; Tamayama, Kazuo (1999). Burma 1942 : the Japanese invasion ; both sides tell the story of a savage jungle war. Chichester: Zampi Press. ISBN 0-9521083-1-3. OCLC 40798441.


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