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Corporal Charles James Johnstone

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Military service

Service number: C/30759
Age: 36
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Canadian Provost Corps
Birth: August 11, 1904 Bexhill, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Enlistment: March 3, 1941 Ottawa, Ontario
Death: May 1, 1941

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 14.
Additional information

Son of Freda Prince, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Husband of Helene Agnes Johnstone, of Regina, Saskatchewan. He worked with the Robert Simpson Co. and later the Ford Motor Co. He was also an active scoutmaster.

Johnstone was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and he served at a number of detachments in the Arctic. He became a reinforcement for No. 1 Provost Company during the Second World War. He was the first member of the Provost Company to die during the Second World War.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 34 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Page 68 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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