Horace Grant Rose, Knockline, North Uist

Private HORACE GRANT ROSE
Son of George Rose, of Bayhead, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Scotland.
Last known address in North Uist: Knockline
Service unit: Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Service number: 3106221
Date of birth: 3 December 1891, at Lochgilphead, Argyll
Date of death: 7 February 1918 at the age of 26
Interred: Toronto (Prospect) Cemetery, 18. 4624

Horace Grant is living at Newmarket, New Hampshire as an unmarried farm superintendent when he signs up for the CEF on 7 December 1917 at Toronto.

He is described as follows
Height 5 ft 10¼ in
Complexion: fresh
Eyes: brown
Hair: brown
Religion: presbyterian

As only two months elapsed between Horace signing up and passing away, he would not have seen action.

Horace appears in the 1901 census at Lochgilphead, aged 9, the son of George C (28) and Annie E (29), brother of Jessie S (7), Maud M F (3) and John A (1).

It appears likely that his brother John Alexander died as an RAF pilot during the Second World War.