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Military service
Service number:
1042423
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 2, 1885
Enlistment:
Renfrew, Ontario
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. 21.
Additional information
Son of Selvester Chant; husband of Jennie Chant, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Frederick Chant
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Press Clipping
Source: Canada's Heroes in the Great World War / Cornwall, Alexandria, Vankleek Hill, Hawkesbury and Intermediate Points. Edited by Noah J. Gareau. Memorial Edition / Volume I. War Publications Limited, Ottawa, Ontario, 1921. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CATCHPOLE TO CHIGNELL. Microform Sequence 19; Volume Number 31829_B016728. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 551 of 958.
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Private Robert Frederick Chant
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Frederick Chant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 383 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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