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Military service
Service number:
423272
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
December 24, 1886
Portland, North Dakota
Enlistment:
May 8, 1915
Roblin, Manitoba
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Henry Martinieus Bjerke, of Pelly, Saskatchewan, and Jakapine Jasopine Bjerke. Husband of the late Jacobine Melsine Bjerke and father of Henry Martinius Bjerke.
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423272 Private (2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, British Columbia Regiment) Karl Oscar Bjerke (b.1885) of Pelly was KIA 19160602 at Mount Sorrel and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper, Belgium, for the 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient. He was the husband of the late Jacobine Melsine Bjerke and the father of Henry Martinius Bjerke. He was the son of Martinius Andreason Bjerke and Emma Julia Bjerke(Olson) who came from West Toten, Norway, to homestead SE30-34-32-W1 north of Pelly. Karl was born in the West Toten area of Norway on the 24 December 1885. He accompanied his parents when they emigrated to Portland, North Dakota, en route, in 1906 homesteaded himself at NW30-34-32-W1, and enlisted at Roblin, Manitoba, in 1915. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens.
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Private Karl Oscar Bjerke
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Private Karl Oscar Bjerke
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 55 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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