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Military service
Service number:
L/84108
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lake Superior Regiment (Motor), R.C.I.C.
Division:
(Motor), R
Birth:
August 31, 1920
Indian Head, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
January 23, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXIV. D. 6.
Additional information
Son of Jacob and Eva Wirth; husband of Alma Eileen Wirth, of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Corporal Carl John Wirth
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Family photo
Brothers Ernest Roy Wirth and Carl John Wirth with mother Eva Wirth (nee Schienbein) -
Brothers
Brothers Carl John Wirth (left) and Ernest Roy Wirth (right) -
Memorial
Corporal Carl John Wirth is also commemorated on the Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) Memorial located in Hillcrest Park, Thunder Bay, ON … May 2018 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) Memorial located in Hillcrest Park, Thunder Bay, ON … May 2018 ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Letter
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Group Photo
L - R Betty, Carl, Ernie and Claire. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of CARL JOHN WIRTH
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Circumstances of death
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Telegram
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Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
Digital gallery of
Corporal Carl John Wirth
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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