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Military service
Service number:
270246
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
215th Bn.
Birth:
February 7, 1898
Death:
March 16, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Family.
Additional information
Son of George and Martha Shannon, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Joseph Shannon
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Memorial Plaque
Paris District High School First World War Memorial Plaque Paris Ontario -
Paris War Memorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930.
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Private Joseph Shannon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Shannon
Digital gallery of
Private Joseph Shannon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 324 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PARIS CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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