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Military service
Service number:
114095
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
December 19, 1893
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Margaret Shearer, of 24, Havelock St., Dowanhill, Glasgow, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Pitcairn Shearer
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Photo of Thomas Shearer
Thomas Shearer died at the age of 24 in battle at Passchendaele, October 30, 1917. He left behind his young girl friend, Beatrice Lick, a school teacher in rural Saskatchewan, who lived into her 90's and never married. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Pitcairn Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Pitcairn Shearer
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Pitcairn Shearer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 324 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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