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Military service
Service number:
40879
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
1st Bde
Birth:
October 29, 1891
Workington, Cumberland, England
Enlistment:
September 21, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
May 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
North half. L. 10. B. 80.
Additional information
Son of James and Jane Shannon, of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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40879 CORPORAL WILLIAM J. SHANNON CANADIAN FIELD ARTILLERY 7TH MAY 1918 AGE 25 HE DIED THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
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Corporal William James Shannon
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Commemorated on:
Page 499 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MEDICINE HAT (HILLSIDE) CEMETERY Alberta, Canada
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