Source: The Regimental Rouge web site.
Family Search: When Private Charles Thomas Cecil Grant was born on 25 December 1898, in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Turner Grant, was 30 and his mother, Clara Tomlinson, was 30. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1898 and Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as clerk in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 April 1917, in Lapugnoy, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 18, and was buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Lapugnoy, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
May have been born in 1898.
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.
PTE. CECIL GRANT, No. 226218. WINDSOR
Enlisted in Hamilton with the Canadian Mounted Rifles, March 20th, 1916. Transferred to the 18th Batt’n in France. Wounded at Vimy Ridge and died April 11th, 1917. Age 18 years.
From his bereaved Mother, Father, Sisters, and Brother.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 