Died 28 Oct 1917 from wounds sustained during the push on Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres in the middle of Oct 1917. At his death, William Frank KARR was over 54 years of age.

William KARR was a well known house mover in North Topeka at the time of the declaration of war by Britain and its Empire nations on Germany on August 4, 1914. Born in Des Moines on August 30, 1863, KARR nevertheless felt it was his duty to volunteer for military service and, as Canada was geographically the closest allied combatant nation to the USA, he chose to join the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. As he was widowed by this stage, with all his children fully grown, he moved from Topeka to Canada and signed his attestation papers in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on Oct 31, 1916.

The interesting part of William KARR's story is that 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 (see paper below).

KARR is buried in the British Military Cemetery of Lijssenthoek in Belgium. The Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is located about 12 kilometers west of Ypres town centre, just outside the Belgian town of Poperinge. The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, a few of which were brought in from the battlefields after the Armistice, and 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and German. It is the second largest Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium.