{"id":5303,"date":"2020-09-09T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5303"},"modified":"2023-09-17T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T12:52:52","slug":"grant-harold-john","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/grant-harold-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant, Harold John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Harold John Grant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Leading Aircraftman, 83 GDS<br>Service number 1861427<br>Died 19 Sep 1945<br>Buried Hamburg Cemetery, Germany<br>Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;IN SACRED AND LOVING MEMORY. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN BY THOSE THAT LOVED HIM&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Harold was born in January 1926 in Stepney, London to Samuel Goldstein and Alice nee Mantus and had one sister Marion. Harold&#8217;s cousin was Gerald Mantus who was also died serving. He was killed alongside his father Harry by a V2 rocket at Hughes Mansions six months after Harold&#8217;s death. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/mantus-gerald\/\">Mantus, Gerald | The Jews of the RAF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold was bought up in Hackney and the family lived at 203 Navarino Mansions where Samuel worked as a works manager at a woodwork factory. 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