George Joseph Kline was born on November 9, 1897, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was the son of John Kline and Mary Kline. He had left Halifax in January 1915 with the first draft of the 23rd Battalion and spent 16 months in the trenches without receiving a wound. At the outbreak of war, he was living in Boston but returned to enlist for overseas service only six weeks later. He served in the 11th Machine Gun Company, Signal Canadian Machine Gun Corps, as a Private during World War I.

Pvt Kline was Killed in Action on November 13, 1917, when his machine gun post suffered a direct hit. He is now buried in the Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.

Source of information: canadiangreatwarproject.com, www.findagrave.com