Name: Granville Murray Hearabout Rank: Private Service Number: F/57247 Service: North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: August 8, 1912 Place of Birth: Belmont, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: July 27, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Truro, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 30 Occupation: Janitor Marital Status: Married Next of Kin: Frances Isabel Heerebout (Wife) Religion: United Church of Canada Date of Death: March 25, 1945 Age: 32 Cemetery: Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Grave: XVII. H. 4. Commemorated on Page 523 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 5 Granville was the son of John Heerebout (1869-1929) and Cyrena May ‘Irene’ (Blackburn) Heerebout (1885- 1917). His father was born ‘Jan’ Heerebout in Brouwershaven, a historic port town located on the west coast of the Netherlands (in the province of Zeeland). The family surname is sometimes recorded as Hearabout and Herrebout. His parents married in 1906. His siblings were Shirley Heerebout (b. 1902), Minnie Cornelia Heerebout (1907–1976), Steadman Heerebout (b. 1908), Arthur Heerebout (b. 1911), and Lester Brenton Heerebout (1914–1915), as well as two half-sisters from their husband’s first marriage to Ada L. Robinson (m. 1894), Jennet (Jennie) Heerebout (1894–1936), and Lizzie Heerebout (b. 1896). Granville was the husband of Frances Isabelle (Lester) Hearabout (1923-1978), of Truro, Nova Scotia, and the father of Marie Elizabeth Hearabout (1942-2019) and Carol Shirley Hearabout (1944-2017). His brother, Trooper Reuben Heerebout, died in Sicily serving with 'B' Squadron of 1st Armoured Car Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons), Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Prior to his active enlistment in the Second World War, Granville was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Louise Fusiliers beginning in March of 1942. Private Granville Hearabout was killed in action in the Netherlands on March 25, 1945, during the Battle of Bienen, Germany, an engagement just east of the Rhine border. On this date, the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade was deployed to expand the bridgehead established during Operation Plunder. The North Nova Scotia Highlanders were ordered to relieve the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, who had become pinned down outside the village. The advancing battalions encountered heavy defensive fire from the enemy utilizing fortified positions which led to intense house-to-house combat. The engagement resulted in significant casualties for the regiment, with 44 personnel killed in action and 68 wounded on that single day. Private Hearabout was initially interred in a temporary battlefield cemetery near the site of the action. On the Memorial in the Canadian War Cemetery at Groesbeek are inscribed the following words: Pro amicis mortui amicis vivimus: We live in the hearts of friends for whom we died.