MY WAR DEAD
FOREMAN, Granado Walter - died 14th July 1917.
Granado Walter Foreman was born in Poowong, Victoria, Australia, on 31st January 1894, being the 4th child and eldest son of Walter Foreman, a grazier, and his wife who was born Emma Louisa Chapman. His maternal grandparents had emigrated from England in 1852 while his father had been born in Kent and probably emigrated in 1856.
Before the First World War, Granado lived with his parents in St Kilda, Victoria, and was an engineering and surveying assistant for the state railway. He applied for a commission in the Australian Imperial Forces on 12th February 1915, having initially qualified for appointment as a 2nd Lieutenant in February 1914; in the event, he was appointed to the A.I.F. on 18th October 1915. Lieutenant Granado Walter Foreman sailed from Melbourne on 23rd November 1915, arriving in Alexandria, Egypt, and was eventually attached to a training battalion at Tel el Kebir in Egypt in March 1916. He next travelled to England at the end of May 1916 and, on 23 October 1916, was discharged from the A.I.F. and awarded a commission, as probationary 2nd Lieutenant, in the Royal Flying Corps in London. He spent a short time at an R.F.C. School of Instruction and was placed on a 'seconded list' on 9th November 1916. Granado was granted a Royal Aero Club's Aviator's Certificate on 20th April 1917 at the Military School, Sedgeford, Norfolk, flying an F.E.2b Biplane.
From 2nd May 1917, Granado served with 22nd Squadron R.F.C. in France and was killed in action on 14th July 1917, aged 23; he is buried at the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, near Arras, France. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory medal,
Granado Walter Foreman was my 3rd cousin, three times removed.