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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
September 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
6. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Eugene Charles Frederick and Lydia Stoll, of Long Branch, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Earl Reginald Stoll
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Group Photo
Photo credit of the Memory Project www.thememoryproject.com 4 Corporals of the Queens’ Own Rifles. L-R: Earl Stoll, killed in action (DOW), Sept ’44; Gerry Rayner, killed in action, July ’44; Lieut. Freddie Harris, killed in action D-Day, June 6, 1944; Sgt. Barney Danson, wounded in action Aug. ’44. -
Photo of Earl R. Stoll
Lieutenant Stoll joined the QOR of C in June 1940 as a rifleman and was eventually promoted to the rank of Seargent. He and several other officers were posted to the 8th Army in North Africa for combat experience in 1943. He rejoined the Regiment in England in August 1943 and subsequently went off on his officer's course in Canada. He was a replacement officer in Normandy and was mortally wounded in the attack on Fort De la Creche. (Channel Ports area) -
Grave Marker
This photo of Lt Stoll's grave at Calais Cemetery was taken by Craig Cameron while on a trip to France in June, 1997.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 454 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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