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Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Shakerley

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Military service

Age: 35
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: Shropshire, England
Enlistment: January 10, 1915 Alberta
Death: May 15, 1915

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. D. 8.
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Son of Geoffrey Joseph and Emma (née Butler) Shakerley, of Hulme Ranche, High River, Alberta. Husband of Marjory Shakerley, of Whittington Lodge, Worcester, England.

Brother of Second Lieutenant Arthur Cecil Shakerley who died on April 22, 1917 while serving with the Royal Field Artillery and brother of Captain Eric Piers Shakerley who died on March 10, 1915 while serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps..

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 602 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Fleurbaix is a village 5 kilometres south-west of Armentieres at the junction of the road from Armentieres and the road to Bethune. Petillon is a village to the south of Fleurbaix and RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY is 3 kilometres south of Fleurbaix on the south side of the road from Petillon to La Boutillerie.

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