Albert Henry Grand

Rank:

Driver

Regimental number:

11318

Unit at enlistment:

4th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Norfolk

Birth city:

Norwich

Address at enlistment:

Gladstone Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

127 Armes Street, Norwich, England

Trade or calling:

Machinist

Employer:

Adams Wagon Works

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX May 5, 1915

Private Jack Grand reported in the Expositor yesterday in a letter from the front as having been killed when a horse fell over on him, the letter being from Private A. Duff, was at the time of his enlistment with the active service contingent, a resident of Aberdeen Avenue, in Brantford Township.

He was employed at the Adams Wagon Works and left behind him a brother and sister, both residing on Aberdeen Avenue, the young lady having kept house for the two boys. He was a single man and left with the Dufferin Rifles first contingent. He afterwards transferred in the cavalry.

The letter was received by W.H. Mulligan, who this morning gave The Expositor the above particulars of the young man, they being fellow employees at the Adams Works.

BX May 6, 1915

Further enquiry into the report of the accidental death at the front of Private Jack Grand shows that the man referred to is Private Albert Henry Grand, Gladstone Avenue, popularly known at the Adams Wagon works, where he was employed before going to the front, as Jack Grand. However, he was not killed, as was reported from a friend at the front, but merely injured. His brother, Herbert and sister, Nellie, Gladstone Avenue have received letters from him written in his own hand-writing, while he was confined in the hospital after the accident in which his horse fell on him.

BX May 31, 1915

Injured But Not Killed – Pte. Grand’s Relatives Here Received a Welcome Letter From Him on Saturday

Some time ago word was received here in a letter from a Brantford boy at the front that Driver A. (Jack) Grand had been killed by his horse falling on him. This was shown Saturday to be untrue, a welcome letter having been received from him by his brother, Herbert, Gladstone Ave.

Driver Grand was at the time of writing in the British Red Cross hospital at Netley. He had been sent there after his horse fell on him, breaking his hip, and following this he had an attack of appendicitis, but he escaped without an operation. He is now getting along very well.

It is evident that a chum of his heard of the accident, which was a serious one, and thought that he had been killed. His many friends here will be pleased to learn that he is yet alive.

BX July 7, 1975

Albert Henry Grand

GRAND, Albert Henry – At the John Noble Home, on Saturday, July 5, 1975, Albert Henry Grand, beloved husband of Mary Ellen Wilde Grand; dear father of Mrs. Irene Moss of Hamilton; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Predeceased by a daughter Mrs. Evelyn Kent-Fawkes of Vancouver. Friends will be received at the “Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home,” 96 West Street, from Monday, at 2 p.m. Service at the funeral home on Tuesday, July 8, 1975, at 1 p.m. Interment Mount Hope Cemetery. Mr. Grand was a veteran of World War One, member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 90. Rev. Fred F. Starkey of Balfour United Church will officiate.