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Military service
Service number:
443955
Age:
20
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
May 13, 1896
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
November 18, 1916
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Son of Charles Aeneas and Louisa Fowler Shaw (nee Flesher), of Keremeos, British Columbia. Cadet of a family who were noted for their service as soldiers for the past hundred and fifty years.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
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Photo of Alexander Flesher Shaw
About 1915 -
Memorial
Cenotaph at Kettle Valley, British Columbia -
War memorial
Cenotaph at Kettle Valley, British Columbia -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of December 12, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist59y314uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Alexander Flesher Shaw
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 161 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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