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Private JOHN SHIRRA

Service Number: 17484
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 April 1918

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY

II. C. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Jeanie Shirra, of Glasgow; husband of Margaret Findlay Shirra, of 48, Ronald St., Townhead, Glasgow.
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Buried or commemorated at

CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1883
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