Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
52nd Bn.
Birth:
August 29, 1891
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
February 24, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
October 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXI. BB. 11.
Additional information
Son of William and Marie Grant of Winnipeg, Manitoba; husband of Marjorie F. Grant, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Additional citations
Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Captain Herve Murray Grant
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Captain Hervé Murray Grant, M.C.
Born 29 August 1891, eldest son of William Shearer Grant and Mary Evelyn (Mingaye) of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He died of wounds at age 26, on October 28, 1917, two days after Lt-Gen Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps began the attack for Passchendaele, Belgium. By November 7, having endured appalling conditions and having suffered over 15,000 dead and wounded, the Canadians seized Passchendaele. Captain H.M. Grant's grave is in Lijssnthoek Cemetary on the outskirts of Poperinge, just west of Ypres, Belgium. Near him in the region that same week was his younger brother from Winnipeg, William Mingaye Grant, then age 21 (1896-1989), who married Wilma Emilie (Weir) and was the father of four sons, James Mingaye Grant, Gordon Weir Grant, Robert Murray Grant and Ian van Felson Grant. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Hervé Murray Grant
From The War Book of Upper Canada College, edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War. -
Memorial Tablet
Captain Hervé Murray Grant is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during the First World War. Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
The Parish of St Luke in Winnipeg erected this memorial. It was unveiled in St Luke in around 1919 and is dedicated to Capt Hervé Murray Grant M.C. killed in action during the Great War. This Cross is the original cross from his grave from Lijssenthoek cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders.
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
Digital gallery of
Captain Herve Murray Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 246 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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