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Sapper WILLIAM JOHN SHANNON

Service Number: 2207307
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

663 Artisan Works Coy.

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1940

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LA BERNERIE-EN-RETZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row B. Grave 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry John and Nellie Shannon; husband of Miriam Shannon, of Gosport, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE HE GAVE, THAT AS FREE MEN HIS SONS MIGHT LIVE
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