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Military service
Service number:
1060373
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Forestry Corps
Death:
February 5, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
P. 178.
Additional information
Son of John M. Shaw and Edith Frances Shaw, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Husband of Jennie Irene Shaw, of Greenwich, Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private Blake Shaw
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Photo of Blake Shaw
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Telegram
Telegram announcing the death of Private Blake Shaw in Reading War Hospital of influenza pneumonia on February 5, 1919. -
Postcard
Postcard sent by Private Blake Shaw to his wife Jennie Shaw in Glasgow, N.S. on July 9, 1917. -
Family photo
Photos of Private Blake Shaw, his wife Jennie and his infant son Gordon Shaw. -
Postcard
Front of a photo postcard sent by Private Blake Shaw to his wife Jennie, possibly taken at Reading War Hospital in Berkshire. -
Postcard
Verso of a photo postcard sent by Private Blake Shaw to his wife Jennie, possibly taken at Reading War Hospital in Berkshire. -
Photo of Blake Shaw
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Photo
Photo of a collar bib sent from overseas by Private Shaw to his baby son Gordon in Nova Scotia. -
Letter
Last letter penned to his wife Jennie prior to his departure from Nova Scotia for England. -
Letter
page 2 of last letter sent to Jennie prior to departure to England. -
Letter
Postcard sent from Blake Shaw to his son Gordon Shaw. Post marked Dec. 7, 1917 Winchester, England.
Digital gallery of
Private Blake Shaw
Digital gallery of
Private Blake Shaw
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 542 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WOLFVILLE (WILLOW BANK) CEMETERY Nova Scotia, Canada
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