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Military service
Service number:
429218
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
June 8, 1893
Innisfail, Alberta
Enlistment:
March 15, 1915
New Westminster, British Columbia
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Karr, of North Galiano, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John Lendrum Karr
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Photo of John Lendrum Karr
John Lendrum Karr--aka Len...died on the battlefield two weeks before his 22nd birthday. Len was the middle child and was survived by his parents, William and Jane, 5 brothers and 3 sisters and a sweetheart. All of his brothers served their country--either in the First World War or in WW2. -
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private John Lendrum Karr
Digital gallery of
Private John Lendrum Karr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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