The Sadness of a Mother

Private Cecil Grant died of wounds on April 11, 1917. His family showed their grief through a poem that was printed in the Southwestern Ontario Memorial Album. The poem reads:

Sleep on dear son, in your soldier’s grace,
Your life for your country you nobly gave,
No friends stood near you to say good-bye,
But safe in God’s keeping you now forever lie.

The family further expressed their grief on his tombstone with the inscription:

Rest darling boy
Till we meet again
Mother

The dedication in the Southwestern Ontario Memorial Album lists his mother as the first in the list of bereaved.