Military service
Service number:
B/144703
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 12, 1925
Hagersville, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 24, 1943
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 11, 1944
Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. A. 3.
Additional information
Son of Austin and Bessie Brant, of Hagersville, Ontario.
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Photo of Jacob Shelby Brant
Born on the Mississaugas of the Credit Reservation, named for this great-great grandfather. Enlisted in the Lincoln and Welland Regiment in March 1943, wounded in August 1944, killed in Belgium on September 11, 1944. -
Gravemarker
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Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 -1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 -1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
War Memorial
The War Monument in Hagersville, Ontario, Canada. -
Inscription
WWII plaque on Hagersville’s War Memorial—Jacob S. BRANT is one of the 19 names listed on the plaque.
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Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Jacob Shelby Brant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 257 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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