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Private Leslie Shearer

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Military service

Service number: 887377
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division: 47th Bn.
Birth: February 21, 1894 Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
Enlistment: December 29, 1916 Saskatchewan
Death: April 13, 1917 Vimy Ridge, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: F. 2.
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Son of Peter and Charlotte Eleanor Shearer, of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 324 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Vimy is a village some 10 kilometres north of Arras and the PETIT-VIMY BRITISH CEMETERY is west of the village and a little west of the main road from Lens to Arras (N25).

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