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Gunner JOHN THOMAS SHIELD

Service Number: 897939
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

98(The Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Field Regt

Date of Death

Died 11 June 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

Plot 8. Row A. Grave 45.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas Nicholls Shield and Elizabeth Alice Shield, of Chichester, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription "OUT OF EARTH'S SORROWS INTO THY BALM, OUT OF LIFE'S STORM AND INTO THY CALM"
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