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Gunner Alfred John Garrett

Portrait of a soldier wearing peak hat.

Gnr. Garrett

1918. The Christmas Echo: Honour Roll Number. LLSC.

CEF no. 333873

When Alfred John Garrett enlisted at the age of twenty-one, he was a school teacher who had two years of experience serving with the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC). After being declared fit for duty on 19 May 1916, he was sent overseas and transferred to the 10th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery to serve in France. He was killed in action on 28 March 1918, in the field. His brother, Capt. Dalton Garrett, a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps was killed in September 1918.

He is commemorated on page 413 of the First World War Book of Remembrance (Memorial Chamber, Peace Tower, Parliament Hill).

Grave: La Targette British Cemetery, France.