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Military service
Service number:
R/80520
Age:
24
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
419 Sqdn.
Death:
May 9, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 8. B. 2-7.
Additional information
Son of John Fulton Shannon and Mary Amelia Shannon; husband of Yvonne Dorothy Shannon, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
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Temporary grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Charles Melville Shannon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 113 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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