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Private HORACE WILLIAM SHANKS

Service Number: 67878
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

2nd Depot Coy.

Date of Death

Died 12 November 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XLIX. F. 32.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Elizabeth Shanks, of 53, Hopwood St., Hull. Employed for seven years in the Hull Post Office.
  • Personal Inscription IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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