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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Division:
6th Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Birth:
High River, Alberta
Death:
March 10, 1915
Givenchy, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Geoffrey Joseph and Emma (née Butler) Shakerley, of Hulme Ranch, High River, Alberta. Educated at Clifton College and Cooper's Hill. Brother of Second Lieutenant Arthur Cecil Shakerley, Royal Field Artillery killed in action on 22 April 1917 and Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Shakerley, King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action on 15 May 1915.
Additional citations
Mentioned in Despatches. Order of the Medjidie (4th Class). Sudan Irrigation Service 1906-13. Gazetted Aug., 1914.
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Honour roll
De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour (1914-1919) -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Captain Eric Piers Shakerley
Digital gallery of
Captain Eric Piers Shakerley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 602 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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