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Military service
Service number:
225688
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
December 5, 1877
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Alice M. Shipley, of 65, Markfield Rd., Bootle, Liverpool, England.
Digital gallery of Private John Shipley
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Photo of John Shipley
Private John Shipley, C.E.F., 78th Battalion, killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 9th, 1917 -
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Private John Shipley, C.E.F., 78th Battalion, killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 9th, 1917 -
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 John Shipley
Digital gallery of
Private John Shipley
Digital gallery of
Private John Shipley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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