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Lieutenant Justin Thomas Karls

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Military service

Service number: CDN/345
Age: 27
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: East Lancashire Regiment
Division: 5th
Birth: June 15, 1917 Oak Park
Enlistment: September 24, 1941 Ontario
Death: July 16, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: IV. A. 2.
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Justin Karls was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the East Lancashire Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer.

Son of Oscar J. and Anne O. Karls.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 349 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL Calvados, France

The village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel lies 16 kilometres west of Caen on the main road (the D9) towards Caumont l'Evente. The cemetery is 1 kilometre south-east of the hamlet of St Martin (on the D139 to Grainville); on reaching a large memorial to the 49th (West Riding) Division, turn down the track opposite the memorial which leads directly to the cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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