| Rank | Private, Sergeant |
| Service # | 3130175 |
| Unit # | 1st, WOR |
| Resident | Chatham |
Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1489 – 14, Item: 87628.Date of Birth: 28/11/1893 at New York City, NY., USA. Son of Annie Carl (nee Herbert) of Lauda, Baden, Germany. A single mechanical engineer living in Chatham, ON. working for the Gray Dort Motor Co., of Chatham. MSA 268129 LR. Attestation: 3/01/1918 at London, ON. to 1st WOR.
Oscar went overseas in 1918, embarking the 4th of February and disembarking in England 16/02/1918. He was transferred 9/03/18 to the 4th Batt. Forestry Corps. He was then promoted to Sergeant. He met and married an English woman (Lillian) Victoria Hudson 30/01/1919. He was hospitalized at Beach Hill Hospital at Englefield Green for Tonsillitis and in January of 1919 for Influenza. Englefied Green is the location of the RAF Memorial for WWII. Oscar chose to remain in England after demobilization 8/09/1919.
After the war, he moved to Belgium, and then to Copenhagen in late 1920. He and Victoria lived there until 1926. It is believed that he was involved in automobile manufacturing. Their daughter, Nora Patricia Carl, was born there 19/08/1921.
The family returned to London, England. In 1926, after a failed business venture, the family moved to High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Carl worked there for most of his life as an engineer.
With the start of WWII, because he was an American by birth and too old for the Army and in 1940 as a American alien in High Wycombe, was declared a “protected military area”. He lost his job and they had to move to Stamford Hill, then a Jewish area of London, in with his in-laws. From that location he enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a Private but was discharged due to poor health. By then the Americans were in the war and Oscar and his family moved back to High Wycombe where he worked for the J.W. Cubbage & Sons. His daughter married an Englishman named Ronald Lord. Nora was still alive in 2016.
Oscar had two grandchildren: John Lord and Jennifer (Thurgood)
Oscar passed away 10/04/1965 in Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire.
LAC search, S. Lord (e-mail) 5/05/16.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
| Sources | Library Archives of Canada, RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1489 – 14, S. Lord (e-mail) (5/05/16) |
| Birthplace | 28/11/1893 at New York City, NY., USA |
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