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Military service
Service number:
443934
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
January 28, 1888
Death:
May 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Peter and Kate Shields; husband of Ellen Shields, of 516, Agnes St., New Westminster, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Patrick Shields
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Memorial
War Memorial, Fernie and District, British Columbia. Dedicated by Lord Byng on May 24th, 1922. Inscribed: ERECTED TO PERPETUATE OUR HONOURED DEAD AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON IN THE GREAT WAR FROM FERNIE B.C. AND DISTRICT. -
Inscription
Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, 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)
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Private Thomas Patrick Shields
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Patrick Shields
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Patrick Shields
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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