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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
107573
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
October 23, 1888
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
May 26, 1915
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
November 2, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXI. FF. 9.
Additional information
Son of George Walter and Eleanor of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Husband of Olive Shipton, of North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Additional citations
Military Cross, London Gazette No. 30482 and Military Medal, London Gazette No. 29719 dated 23 August 1916, British War Medal and Victory Medal
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 30, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y306uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y286uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
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From the Daily Colonist of January 12, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist59y342uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Bernard Shipton
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Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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