B131810 Rifleman Frank Robert Carleton was born in Elk Lake, Timiskaming, Ontario on 17 Aug 1922, the son of Milton Ray Carleton Annie Vera Neal. He completed Grade 11 and left school at age 15.

Carleton was employed as a factory worker when he enrolled with the Active Service Battalion of The Queen’s Own Rifles on 24 August 1942. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom, and North West Europe, landing on Juno Beach with the QOR on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Some of that time was serving as an officer’s “batman”. He was demobilized in Toronto on 13 March 1945.

He married Norma Elizabeth Cottingham on 8 Oct  1945 in New Liskeard, Ontario, and they had two sons and four daughters. He worked as a Stationary Engineer for CBM, a Cement Company.

Carleton died on 30 June 1993 at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ontario and is buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto, grave reference Section N, Lot 4390.