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Military service
Service number:
770
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
March 15, 1889
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 58
Additional information
Son of Richard and Leah Grant, of 78, Mount St., Bangor, Wales.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Grant
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Robert Grant
Source: W.J.Owen, "Cofeb y Dewrion Heroes' Memorial 1914-1918" (Roll of War Dead from Bangor, Caernarfonshire, UK). Caption reads: "Private Robert Grant was the son of Mr and Mrs Richard Grant, 78 Mount Street, Bangor. He was in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the outbreak of war, and at once joined the 1st Battalion (Princess Patricia), August 4, 1914, and arrived in this country October, and went to France Dec. 14, and was killed in action May 8, 1915, at the age of 28 years."
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Grant
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Grant
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Grant
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 16 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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