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Earlby Gordon Shannon

In memory of:

Corporal Earlby Gordon Shannon

August 8, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

868015

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Division:

116th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

February 13, 1896

Son of John and Barbara Helen Shannon, of Islington, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 498 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

A. 63.

Location:

Domart-sur-la-Luce is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme in the valley of the Luce on the road from Amiens to Roye. Hourges is a hamlet on the same road a little south-east of the village and HOURGES ORCHARD CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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