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Constable John George Shaw

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 11582
Age: 38
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: F Division
Birth: December 5, 1896
Enlistment: April 1, 1932
Death: October 5, 1935 Benito, Manitoba
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Cst. Shaw was a decorated veteran of the British Expeditionary Force and had been a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. He was killed near Benito, Manitoba, while transferring three robber suspects to Pelly, Saskatchewan.

He was separated from his wife and had two daughters. Cst. Shaw is buried in Swan River, Manitoba. There is a street at Depot named in Cst. Shaw’s honour.

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Page 56 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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