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Corporal JAMES RITSON SHANNON

Service Number: 882374
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 20 March 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY

9A. D. 6.

Serbia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Shannon, and of Ellen Cusick Shannon, of Ayr.
  • Personal Inscription BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES ARE TREASURED EVER OF HAPPY DAYS WE SPENT TOGETHER
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Buried or commemorated at

BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY
Serbia
Number of casualties: 495
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