The Scots Times, in an appreciation of “The late Lieut. Ivor Forsyth Grant, advocate,” says:
Many friends of all ages and walks in life throughout Scotland will mourn the death of Lieutenant Ivor Forsyth Grant, which took place as the result of wounds received in action in Gallipoli. He went out one night with two men to reconnoitre, and especially to find out if an old house was occupied by the enemy. They found no one there. He said to the men, “The house is empty,” and immediately afterwards was shot in the arm. While lying on the ground he was wounded in the left leg. He was brought in promptly, but the wounds were so severe that nothing could be done, and he died the following morning.

Mr Forsyth Grant was a Kincardineshire man by birth, and was the son of Mr G. J. Forsyth Grant, advocate. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and at Edinburgh University, and received his legal training in the office of Messrs J. & F. Anderson, W.S. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1913, and as one of the counsel for the poor on circuit it was his fortune to be called on to conduct the important criminal case of H.M. Advocate -v- Ryan, which involved difficult and important questions on the construction of an old Scots statute and the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus, and which was deemed so important that it was ordered to be heard before a full Bench. The ordeal was a severe one for a young counsel in his first year at the Bar, but Mr Forsyth Grant conducted the case with so much ability as to earn warm praise from the Bench and to excite the liveliest hopes of his friends for his future career as a counsel.

Mr Forsyth Grant was a man of the most purposeful and attractive personality. Whatever he put his hand to he did with all his might. Work at the University Settlement, as a Scoutmaster, and as secretary to a Scout Club, brought him into contact with persons of all ages and positions; with all alike he was popular and an influence for good. He excelled as a sportsman, was a good rider and a keen and useful shot, and there were few games which he did not play well. As an officer in the Lovat Scouts it is no mere figure of speech to say that he was beloved by officers and men alike. When attached to the regular cavalry for training in the years before the war he earned golden opinions as a good officer and a “good fellow”.

His early death is a sad tragedy, but nothing will ever efface from the recollections of those who knew him the infectious joie de vivre which he shed around him, and the courtesy and kindliness with which he met young and old and rich and poor.

Tributes from Brother Officers
Particulars have been received as to how Lieutenant Ivor Forsyth Grant met his death at Suvla on October 19th.

His Colonel writes:”You will have heard that he volunteered for a dangerous duty, and how gallantly he behaved. You will not know perhaps how every one of his brother officers will feel his loss, myself as much as any. His influence over the regiment was a good and manly one; conscientious in every detail of his duty as a soldier, he was also the most cheerful of companions and the life of any party of officers that he was with, and always ready to throw himself with enthusiasm into any new scheme of work or play. I feel that not only the regiment but also Scotland has lost a good man.”

A brother officer writes:
“Every officer and man here has seen him on active service for about three weeks, and he has set us all an example of coolness and unselfishness which we shall never see the like of, and shall never forget, and I don’t mean only after he was wounded. Of course, this is no surprise to us who knew him and what he was made of, but others who didn’t know him couldn’t fail to see in him as real a man as they will ever be likely to see.”