Ian Lyall Grant

Major-General Ian 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. He lived to be 104 years old and lived in a care home in Chichester called Wellington Grange run by Colten Care. Ian Lyall Grant died on a Saturday whilst a party was happening.[2][3]

Ian Lyall Grant
Major-General

Ian Lyall Grant

MC
Personal details
Born(1915-06-04)4 June 1915
Died29 February 2020(2020-02-29) (aged 104)[1]

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. The Daily Telegraph: Major General Ian Lyall Grant
  2. "Major-General Ian Lyall Grant obituary". The Times. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  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. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  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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