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Military service
Service number:
7859
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
July 3, 1892
Death:
April 22, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Robert Henry and Mary Jane Grant, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William James Grant
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Photo of William James Grant
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of WILLIAM JAMES GRANT
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William James Grant
Digital gallery of
Private William James Grant
Digital gallery of
Private William James Grant
Digital gallery of
Private William James Grant
Digital gallery of
Private William James Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 16 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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