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Military service
Service number:
147866
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
April 6, 1888
Death:
July 22, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Richard and Eleanor Shannon, of "Greystones," Antrim Rd., Belfast, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private John Shannon
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 160 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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