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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1st Battalion
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Grant, of Toronto.
Additional citations
Military Cross (London Gazette No. 29886, dated January 1, 1917) "For general good services rendered in the field, and not for any specific act of gallantry."
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription
August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate Memorial
October 2009 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Inscription
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Oswald Wetherald Grant
From The War Book of Upper Canada College, edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923. This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War. -
Memorial Tablet
Oswald Wetherald Grant is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet. It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during the First World War. Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario. -
Osgoode Hall War Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
Appeared in the Toronto Star on January 3rd, 1917. -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Oswald Wetherald Grant
Lt. Oswald Wetherald Grant is on the left in this photograph, holding a tennis racket. He was photographed with the future Lt. Hugh D'Alton Livingston, 116th Battalion CEF, who was killed in action on August 27th, 1918. Source: Torontonensis 1913 (University of Toronto Year Book), pg. 303. Caption: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO TENNIS TEAM, INTER-COLLEGIATE CHAMPIONS, 1912. -
Photo of Oswald Grant
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "Lt. Oswald Wetherald Grant M.C. 1st Bn." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of OSWALD WETHERALD GRANT
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 94 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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