Name: Carman Ernest Post
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: The Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Date of Birth: August 12, 1921 in Havelock, Ontario, Canada
Date of Death: August 19, 1942 in Dieppe, Normandy, France
Service No: A/21637
Additional information: Carman was the son of Frederick Post and Bernice Kelly from Havelock and the second youngest of 4 boys. After the Dieppe Raid, Carman was declared missing in action. Nothing was known about his whereabouts until 1943, when a letter arrived from the German POW camp Stalag VIII-B in Poland from Canadian POW John H. Martin describing the events of the morning of August 19, 1942. John said that he saw Carman get hit in the head by machine gun fire while disembarking from the tank landing craft at approximately 6am 20 yards from shore. He said that Carman was either killed immediately or drowned from being weighted down from his equipment and ammunition. He was only 21 years old.
Memorial: Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 24. Column 3.
