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Military service
Service number:
B/134354
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
June 11, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. G. 6.
Additional information
Foster-son of Frances A. Nixon, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
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Photo of John Raymond Grant
Lance Corporal Grant enlisted in the Army in October 1942 and joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in England in 1943. He was in Dog Company and was KIA at Le Mesnil Patry five days after D-day. -
Obituary
This obituary of Lance Corporal Grant was obtained from a Toronto newspaper (microfilm copy) by Padre Craig Cameron, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, in December 2001. -
Gravemarker
This photo of Lance Corporal Grant's gravemarker at Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery was taken by Padre Craig Cameron, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, in June 1997. -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 320 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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