Source: Regimental Rouge
Family Search: When Private Carl Augustus Byrnes was born on 28 August 1896, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas John Byrnes, was 32 and his mother, Mary Frances Scollick, was 33. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1911 and London, Ontario, Canada in 1915. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as carpenter in London, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 August 1917, in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 20, and was buried in Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Dear Son, I often sit and think of you, when
I am all alone.
For memory is the only friend that grief can
call its own:
Like ivy on the withered oak, when all things
else decay.
My love for you will keep green and never
fade away.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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