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Flying Officer Donald John Shapter

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Military service

Service number: J/35505
Age: 24
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 403 Sqdn.
Death: July 14, 1944

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ST. LAMBERT CHURCHYARD
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Son of the Revd. Charles P. Shapter and Margaret M. Shapter; husband of Elizabeth Jean Shapter, of Toronto, Ontario.

Brother of Warrant Officer William James Aubrey Shapter, who was killed in action on August 6, 1942, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 440 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. LAMBERT CHURCHYARD Calvados, France

St. Lambert is a village and commune 20 miles (32 kilometres) south-west of Caen, 25 miles (40 kilometres) south-south-east of Bayeux, and 6 miles (9 kilometres) south-west of Thury-Elarcourt. This is a small town on the N.162 Caen to Flers road, 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-south-west of Caen. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, in the north-west corner of the churchyard.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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