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Corporal WILLIAM SHANKS

Service Number: 708
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

42nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 6.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Hugh and Isabella Shanks, of Lady Mary Terrace, Gympie, Queensland.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

MESSINES RIDGE BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1539
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