Yukon who is who

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Oswald Wetherald Grant (1892 – 1916)
	
Oswald Grant was born in Almonte, Ontario to parents Reverend and doctor Andrew S. Grant and Caroline A. Grant. He moved to the Yukon with his family and went to school in Dawson. In 1914, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA. He was accepted into Osgood Law School but enlisted in the First World War after his first year. He left Montreal in July 1915 and joined the 1st Battalion in France in October. He was killed by shellfire after participating in initiatives that captured the first and second line of enemy trenches. He was awarded the 1914--1915 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal.((D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, //The Yukon Fallen of World War I.// Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 56.)) Oswald Grant’s name is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium.((Michael Gates, “Paying Homage to the Yukon fallen of World War I.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 14 September 2018.))