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Sapper FRANCIS HOLDEN SHIELDS

Service Number: 1102040
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Railway Troops

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 April 1918

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TANNAY BRITISH CEMETERY, THIENNES

Plot 1. Row C. Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Francis and Dorinda Holden Shields, of Queen's County, Nova Scotia.
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Buried or commemorated at

TANNAY BRITISH CEMETERY, THIENNES
Nord France
Number of casualties: 381
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