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Private Joseph Cuthbert Shipton

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Military service

Service number: A/11015
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth: November 1, 1892 Bridgtown, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: March 17, 1915 Ontario
Death: January 16, 1916 St. Omer, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. B. 14.
Additional information

Son of George Walter and Eleanor Shipton, of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Brother of Amy.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 162 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LONGUENESSE (ST OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY is on the southern outskirts of St Omer and is about 45 kilometres south-east of Calais. When approaching the cemetery from St. Omer centre follow in the direction of Abbeville on the D 928. As you leave the town towards Longuenesse drive up the hill for about 600 metres and the cemetery is on your left.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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