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Military service
Service number:
651484
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
November 14, 1894
Death:
August 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIA. A. 17.
Additional information
Son of Michael and Mary Shields, of Chippawa Hill, Ontario.
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Private John William Shields
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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