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Name:
Freeman Hector Grant
Rank:
Private
Service No:
F/66173
Service:
West Nova Scotia Regiment,
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Date of Birth:
November 11, 1926
Place of Birth:
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Date of Enlistment:
December 30, 1942
Place of Enlistment:
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Address at Enlistment:
Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
Age at Enlistment:
17
Height:
5 feet, 7 inches
Complexion:
Fair
Hair colour:
Black
Eye colour:
Brown
Occupation:
Labourer
Marital Status:
Single
Religion:
Baptist
Next of Kin:
Hector Grant (Father), Yarmouth North, NS
Date of Death:
December 14, 1943
Age at Death:
17
Cemetery:
Moro River Canadian Cemetery (Ortona, Italy)
Grave
Section V, Row A, Grave 9
The 43rd name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial
Commemorated on page 165 of the Second World Book of Remembrance
Freeman Hector Grant was the son of Hector Garnet Grant (1904-1994) and Rowena Vivian (Garron) Grant
(born 1908) of Yarmouth North, Nova Scotia. His mother was born in Westport on Digby Neck in Digby
County, NS and his father was born in Yarmouth, NS.
Prior to enlisting Freeman was living in Carleton and working as a labourer for Roy Miller who had a cloths
pin factory in Carleton.
After enlistment and Basic Training in Canada in 1942 and early 1943, Freeman embarked in Canada for
service overseas on June 10, 1943, and disembarked June 18th in the United Kingdom. He then departed
the UK in September of 1943 to transfer to Italy.
In 1943, the German Army was defending a line from the
Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of
Ortona in Italy. The 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to
cross the Moro River and take Ortona. Private Freeman
Hector Grant was killed in action during the Battle of
Ortona. He was interred at the Moro River Canadian
Cemetery in San Donato, Ortona commune, in the Province
of Chieti, Italy. Some records register Freeman’s year of
birth as 1923, which would have made him 19 when he
enlisted and died.
The name of Freeman's uncle William Howard Grant
appears directly after his on the Yarmouth War Memorial.
He died twenty-eight months after Freeman in Holland,
approximately two weeks before the end of the war in
Europe on April 13, 1945. He is interred at the Holten
Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Freeman Hector Grant
