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Our Branch Secretary will be doing a presentation on Britain`s Worst Railway Disaster – Quintinshill 22nd May 1915 – which claimed the lives of over 200 men of the Royal Scots who were on
their way to Liverpool to take ship to Gallipoli. Grant has researched this subject and
will have had an article published in a railway enthusiasts magazine – now Grant has turned
that work into a full presentation.
Grant spent 45 years working in the Iron and Steel and Speciality Chemicals industries, retiring in 2015. Since visiting the Western Front for the first time in 2004, he has made many return trips. In 2017 Grant visited Gallipoli in Turkey. Started attending WFA Chesterfield not long after its founding and is now Branch Secretary. In addition to all things Great War, Grant is an enthusiastic model maker - mostly WW1 subjects - and a published railway historian again subjects related to WW1. When he has `spare` time he is Branch Secretary of Worksop Branch of The Royal British Legion and is Poppy Appeal Organiser for Worksop and District.