B134354 Lance Corporal John Raymond Grant was born in Toronto on 1 December 1922. He was the foster son of Frances A. Nixon and attended Dovercourt Public School but left high school at age 16.

Grant was working as a shipping clerk for Sinclair & Valentine, a printer’s ink company when he enlisted in the Active Service of the Canadian Army on 14 October 1944. After training in Camp Borden, he arrived in England as a reinforcement on 4 April 1943 and was posted to The Queen’s Own Rifles on 10 June that year.  He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 2 March 1944.

Lance Corporal Grant landed with D Company on Juno Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944 but was killed in action on 11 June 1944 during the battle for Le Mesnil Patry, age 21.

He is buried in Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference II. G. 6.