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Wartime Heritage
ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War II
Yarmouth Connections
Freeman Hector Grant
Rank:
Private
Regiment/Service:
West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Service No:
F/66173
Date of Birth:
November 11, 1926
Place of Birth:
Yarmouth NS
Private Grant was the son of Hector Garnet Grant and Rowena Grant
of Yarmouth North, Nova Scotia. He was killed in action during the
battle to take Ortona, Italy.
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 rests at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery.
Date of Death:
December 14, 1943
Age at Death:
17
Cemetery:
Moro River Canadian Cemetery (Ortona, Italy)
Grave Reference:
V. A. 9.
The 43rd name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial
Commemorated on page 165 of the Second World Book of Remembrance
Sources and Information:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Veterans Affairs Canada
Library and Archives Canada
findagrave.com
Carleton Branch - Royal Canadian Legion
Freeman Hector Grant
Photo: Margaret Rose