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Signalman JOHN ARTHUR SHANKS

Service Number: 511365
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Corps of Signals

2nd N.Z. Div. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 07 December 1943

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY

XVI. E. 26.

Italy

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of John Johnston Shanks and of Isabella Shanks (nee McDonald), of Tapanui, Otago, New Zealand; husband of Florence Hazel Shanks, of Clydehill, Dunedin, Otago.
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Buried or commemorated at

SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2619
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