Name: Garfield Eugene Frost Rank: Private Service Number: F/57616 Service: The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada Date of Birth: May 8, 1924 Place of Birth: Westport, Briar Island, Digby Neck, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: October 13, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Westport, Briar Island, Digby Neck, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 19 Occupation: Fisherman Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Garnett Frost (Father) Date of Death: October 31, 1944 Age: 20 Cemetery: Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, North Brabant, Netherlands Grave: Section 12, Row A, Grave 12 Commemorated on Page 310 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on July 1 Garfield Eugene Frost was the son of Woosley Garnet Frost (1884-1953), and Ethel Beatrice (Mailman) Frost (1890-1956), and the brother of Edwin Evan Frost (1912-1984), Constance Victoria Frost (1913-2000), Lloyd Henderson Frost (1914-1987), Margaret Verona Frost (1916-2004), Lawrence Valentine Frost (1918-1940), Ila Gracie Frost (1919-1994), Wilbert Earle Frost (1920-2003), Roy Llewellyn Frost (1922-1923), Eleanor Josie Frost (1927-2020), Junie Anna Frost (1930-1985), and Ralph Evans Frost (1932-1991). Garfield’s brother Lawrence Valentine Frost served in the Royal Canadian Navy and died October 31, 1944, serving aboard HMCS Margaree. Garfield completed elementary schooling in Westport and was employed as an inshore fisherman before the war, with his father, and Frank Ruggles of Westport. After enlistment, he completed basic training at Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (CIBTC) No. 60 (Camp 60) in Yarmouth, NS, from October to December of 1943, and advanced training at Advanced Infantry (Rifle) Training Centre No. 14 (14 AITC) at Aldershot in Kings County, NS, from December 21, 1943, until the spring of 1944. He spent to times at the Camp Military Hospital from December 28, 1943, to January 8, 1944, and again from April 13-19, 1944. He transferred to the United Kingdom on June 2, 1944, disembarking on June 11, 1944, and subsequently departed the UK on July 17th, landing in France July 18, 1944. Garfield and the Black Watch were assigned to the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Private Garfield Eugene Frost died of wounds received in action on October 31, 1944, during the Battle of the Walcheren Causeway. On the morning of October 31, 1944, troops from the Black Watch of Canada began the first attack on the Walcheren Causeway. The 5th Infantry Brigade had previously fought hard at Woensdrecht and would continue to lose many men on this day. The attack on the Causeway was met by murderous fire from the enemy side. Only in the evening of November 1 did the remnants of the Canadian unit succeed in pulling back to the Beveland side. After attempts by the Calgary Highland Regiment, the Regiment to Maisonneuve, the British Army’s Scottish Rifles (Cameronians) and the Glasgow Highlanders, the Causeway was finally taken on November 3-4, 1944. Garfield was initially interred in a South Beveland (Zuid-Beveland) churchyard, and later reinterred at the Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave