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In memory of:

Corporal Ernest Battell Shields

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Military service

Service number: 871283
Age: 31
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 43rd Bn.
Birth: August 22, 1887
Death: October 1, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: C. 9.
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Son of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Atkinson, of 369, Langside St., Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 500 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Tilloy (or Tilloy-les-Cambrai) is a village in the Department of the Nord, 2.5 kilometres north of Cambrai and 1 kilometre east of the Cambrai-Douai road. MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY is south-west of the village, near the west side of the Douai road.

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