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Military service
Service number:
B/37150
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 14, 1921
Deseronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 23, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brant, of Hamilton. Brother of Private Clifford Brant who died on April 25, 1941, while serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's).
Digital gallery of Private Elmer Joseph Brant
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, November 2, 1944 -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private Elmer Joseph Brant is one of five members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
A marble memorial at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in RR 1 Deseronto, ON was erected by the Kan-Yen-Cen League. This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the local war dead of the Second World War.<P> [front/devant] IN CHERISHED MEMORY OF OUR HEROES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 FOR JUSTICE - HONOUR - FREEDOM <P> FRANCIS MARACLE - LLOYD BRANT - HURON BRANT M.M. - RUSSEL LOT - KENNETH BRANT - CLIFFORD BRANT - ELMER BRANT - CLINTON TOPPINGS - ROBERT ARMITAGE - HOWARD GREEN - JOHN CULBERTSON - JOHN MARACLE - WILLARD ZACHARIAH <P> "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" <P> ERECTED BY THE KAN-YEN-CEN LEAGUE<P> http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=587<P> Photo Credit: D.B. Carrington -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
Digital gallery of
Private Elmer Joseph Brant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 60 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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