Source: “We Will Remember” War Monuments in Canada World Wide Web Site: Wingham Cenotaph
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When Sergeant William Marcus Grant Fetterly was born on 17 August 1889, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Adam Christopher Fetterly, was 25 and his mother, Mary Ann Casselman, was 23. He lived in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, in 1891 and in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as bookkeeper, Western Foundry in Wingham, Huron, Ontario, Canada. He died on 19 February 1919, in Bramshott, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 29, and was buried in Saint Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Bramshott, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
Active lacrosse and baseball player in Wingham.
SERGT. GRANT FETTERLY enlisted with the 161st Battalion in January, 1916, as a private. He went overseas in October, 1916. In England he was promoted to Sergeant. He went to France in February, 1918, and was in the big German drive in March. He contracted trench fever and was set to the base hospital, where he was kept for 10 days, and then sent to England, was in hospital there for two months. After release from the hospital he was attached to the 4th Reserve Battalion and promoted to staff sergeant on the camp quartermaster’s staff. Sgt. Fetterly was taken ill with influenza early in February, 1919, and died at Bramshott Hospital in the 22nd February, 1919. Sergt. Fetterly was employed in the office of the Western Foundry, Wingham, before enlisting, and enjoyed a large circle of friends.
