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Edward John Granet
BornAugust 1858
Died22 October 1918 (aged 60)
Switzerland
Buried
Schosshalden cemetery, Bern
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1878–1918
RankBrigadier-general
UnitRoyal Artillery
Battles/wars
AwardsCB

Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for intelligence in the Second Boer War
.

Granet became

Gallipoli. On 13 August that year he was severely wounded by an enemy shell. Granet was subsequently placed on half-pay
(retirement) due to the severity of his injuries but returned to duty in 1917 when he was re-appointed as military attaché to Bern. He died of his earlier wounds in Switzerland on 22 October 1918, becoming the last British general to die from enemy action in the war.

Early life and career

Granet was born in August 1858 and was the son of William Augustus Granet of

brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel on 29 November 1900.[11]

Granet served in the

companion of the Order of the Bath on 19 June 1911 in the Coronation Honours.[22]

First World War

After the outbreak of the

subsequent raid was made on 21 November 1914. This was carried out by four British aircraft (Avro 504s) shipped by crate to an airfield in Belfort, France.[4] One plane was damaged on takeoff but the remainder survived German AA fire to drop nine bombs on the facility, for the cost of one aircraft shot down and one pilot captured; the remaining pilots returned safely to Belfort and were awarded the Legion of Honour – the aircraft were shipped back to England shortly afterwards.[4] The hydrogen factory was said to be wrecked and a zeppelin was recorded as probably destroyed, with the raid described by historian Martin Gilbert as a "remarkable feat of aerial initiative". A complaint was received from Switzerland that their territory had been overflown but this was strongly denied by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. A further complaint regarding the loss of a Swiss citizen working at the factory was dismissed by Churchill who said that "it serves him right".[4] Although substantial damage was claimed at the time and in some later histories,[24] the damage inflicted was slight.[25][26]

Granet's appointment as military attaché ended in January 1915 and he returned to the Royal Artillery, where he was appointed to the

Suvla Bay.[2] Granet was evacuated and returned to half-pay on 7 November 1916 owing to the severity of his wounds.[28] He was appointed an officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus by the Italian king and on 26 May 1917 was authorised to wear the decorations of that order by George V.[29] Granet recovered enough to be reappointed as military attaché to Stockholm on 4 June 1917,[30] transferring back to Bern the following year. He died of his wounds on 22 October 1918 and was buried initially at Schosshalden cemetery in Bern[2] but after the war he was reburied, with other British service dead from elsewhere in Switzerland in the Commonwealth war graves plot in St Martin's Cemetery, Vevey (Plot 53, Grave 60A).[31] He was the last British general to die as a result of enemy action during the war, which ended on 11 November 1918.[32]

References

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  3. ^ a b The Railway News ... 1918. p. 335. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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  6. ^ "No. 25623". The London Gazette. 7 September 1886. p. 4327.
  7. ^ "No. 26250". The London Gazette. 26 January 1892. p. 424.
  8. ^ "No. 26687". The London Gazette. 10 December 1895. p. 7136.
  9. ^ "No. 26773". The London Gazette. 1 September 1896. p. 4932.
  10. ^ "No. 26775". The London Gazette. 8 September 1896. p. 5036.
  11. ^ "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2704.
  12. ^ "No. 27305". The London Gazette. 16 April 1901. p. 2605.
  13. ^ "No. 27325". The London Gazette. 21 June 1901. p. 4186.
  14. ^ Bodley, John Edward Courtenay (1903). By His Majesty's Gracious Command, the Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History. Methuen & Company. p. 411.
  15. ^ "No. 27489". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 October 1902. p. 6862.
  16. ^ "No. 27632". The London Gazette. 1 January 1904. p. 28.
  17. ^ "No. 27701". The London Gazette. 2 August 1904. p. 4979.
  18. ^ "No. 27781". The London Gazette. 4 April 1905. p. 2545.
  19. ^ "No. 27970". The London Gazette. 23 November 1906. p. 7977.
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  21. ^ "No. 28482". The London Gazette. 4 April 1911. p. 2701.
  22. ^ "No. 12366". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 June 1911. p. 627.
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  24. ^ Hilary St. George Saunders: Per Ardua: The Rise of British Airpower 1911–1939, Oxford University Press, 1944.
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  26. ^ Robinson, Douglas (1971). The Zeppelin in Combat (3rd ed.). London. p. 43.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. ^ "No. 29116". The London Gazette. 30 March 1915. p. 3110.
  28. ^ "No. 29855". The London Gazette. 8 December 1916. p. 12064.
  29. ^ "No. 30096". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 May 1917. p. 5199.
  30. ^ "No. 30193". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 July 1917. p. 7406.
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