Herbert Alexander Garrow

Rank:

Corporal

Regimental number:

10552

Unit at enlistment:

4th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Birth country:

Scotland

Birth county:

Banffshire

Birth city:

Cornhill

Address at enlistment:

55 Colborne Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

12 Grove Green, London, England

Trade or calling:

Moulder

Employer:

Massey-Harris Co.

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX May 28, 1915

Will Likely be First Brantford Man Thus Honored – How it Happened – Brother Writes With Pride of Former Dragoon’s Daring Feat

Mrs. H. Garrow, 123 Barnesdale Avenue, Hamilton, received three letters from her husband, Saddler Garrow of the Fighting Eleventh, and who has been mentioned for promotion to sergeant. He wrote that his brother, Corporal Herbert Alexander Garrow of Brantford, who is a member of D. Company of the 4th Battalion, had been recommended for a Victoria Cross, for conspicuous bravery. Corp. Garrow went into a blaze of bullets and rescued two wounded comrades. Saddler Garrow mentioned the incident in the following letter:

May 9, 1915

My Dear Alice,

I got your letter and Edith’s. We are resting now to fit up again, but we had a lively time for 14 days and nights. The Canadians lost heavily, but we saved the day. We lost a lot of men and horses and harness. The major praised us all for our great work. Bert came and saw me last Monday, and stayed two hours with me. Like myself, he has been through something. He is going to get something for his bravery. He went out under a terrible fire and brought in two wounded men. It is just like him; but Alice, he is not looking very well. Still he is all right, like myself. You need not trouble to send me any socks. I have enough; but anything you send I will get all right. Walter is still living, and is with Bert. Well, Alice, try and make a good job of the garden. I hope you see it before the winter. I don’t think we will be in such a hot place again; but if we are the Canadians will do their bit.

His Local Record

Corporal Garrow enlisted with the rank of corporal with D Squadron, 25th Brant Dragoons, under command of Lieut.-Col. H.F. Leonard, and for over a year prior to his departure for the front was associated with the Dragoons Football Club, and was a valued member of the team. In politics he was a Conservative and was a frequent visitor at the Borden clubrooms. While in Brantford he resided over the Bon March Store, at 66 Colborne Street. His brother, Frank, at the commencement of the war, left on an extended holiday in England and enlisted with Corp. Garrow on the latter’s arrival in England. Corp. Garrow is an unmarried man and has had six years’ service in the old country.