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Military service
Service number:
186693
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
December 6, 1879
Death:
September 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. Shearer; husband of the late E. Shearer.
Digital gallery of Private James Shearer
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
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) -
Group Photo
CEF Manitoba Regiment Panorama. James Shearer is third from the left of men lying down in the front row. -
Family Photo
James and Emily Shearer with their eldest daughter Elizabeth, about April 1916. -
Photo of James Shearer
Hand embroidered frame - probably by James' daughter Elizabeth. -
Group Photo
Engine builders, Winnipeg, Manitoba. James Shearer seated. -
Family Photo
James, his wife Emily, daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. Margaret was born 2 months after James' death. This photo was taken in 1921, possibly in Glasgow, Scotland when Emily took the children to visit James' parents. A photo of James was added to create the family portrait. -
Group Photo
"Under Instruction" James is the man on the left. -
Family Photo
The family he left behind. Sisters, Agnes and Margaret, his brother-in-law Duncan, his wife Emily and daughter Elizabeth all lived together on Tecumseh Street in Winnipeg during the war. -
Photo of Emily and Elizabeth.
James probably had a copy of this photo to remember his wife and daughter as he went off to war.
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private James Shearer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 161 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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