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In memory of:

Chief Radio Officer Charles Alexander Shand

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Chief Radio Officer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Verdefjell (Norway)
Birth: April 22, 1923 Toronto, Ontario
Death: December 13, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 20.
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Son of Daniel Shand and Jean Wears from Toronto, Ontario.

During the First World War, Daniel enlisted on 12 November 1914 with the 19th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in St. Catharines, Ontario. Sent to France, he was wounded in action three times - by shrapnel received in the right wrist and jaw (loss of teeth) on 11 September 1916 at Poziers; on 17 August 1917 in the left thigh; on 2 October 1918 in the left jaw. Repatriated on 25 February 1919, he was demobilized on 22 March in Toronto. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

He was presumed drowned at sea on 13 December 1942.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 224 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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