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Military service
Service number:
F/29791
Age:
28
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
West Nova Scotia Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 4, 1915
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
October 7, 1939
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 8, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 6.
Additional information
Son of Francis and Mabel Shanks of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
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Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Harold Joseph Shanks
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Commemorated on:
Page 212 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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