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Serjeant JOHN SHIELDS

Service Number: 655517
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

380th Bty. 138th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 20 September 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ZUYDCOOTE MILITARY CEMETERY

I. E. 23.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Shields, of 25, McKinlay Place, Kilmarnock.
  • Personal Inscription HAD WE NEVER LOV'D SAE KINDLY
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Buried or commemorated at

ZUYDCOOTE MILITARY CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 327
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