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Bombardier JOHN ERNEST SHIELDS

Service Number: 11435
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

103rd Howitzer Bty., 3rd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1918

Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. C. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Eliza Jane Shields, of 10, Park Rd., Auburn, New South Wales, and the late Albert Jenkins Shields.
  • Personal Inscription THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 253
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