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Personal data

• Name KARR
• Initials WF
• First name WILLIAM FRANK
• Place of birth Des Moines
• Country Iowa, U.S.A.
• Family Widower; a son: Earl Karr. he "shaved" 10 years off his age on the Attestation Paper by declaring that he was born on August 30, 1873, when in fact he was born on 1863. This places him at 53 years of age instead of the 43 that he declared
• Profession Contractor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 31 October 1916, Regina, Saskatchewan
• Service number 200006
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 10th Bn. Canadian Railway Troops
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on right axilla in n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 28 October 1917
• Died at the age of 44
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - F - 14

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