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Military service
Service number:
192515
Age:
29
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
December 18, 1887
Portgordon, Scotland
Enlistment:
August 31, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 1, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of M. J. Grant of Enzie, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
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Press Clipping
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Submitted by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Lance Corporal Grant enlisted in the 92nd Bn but was transferred to the 42nd Bn (Royal Highlanders of Canada) as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V.Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Cap Badge
Cap Badge 42nd Bn (Royal Highlanders of Canada). Lance Corporal Grant enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the 42nd Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Rennie Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 246 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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