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Corporal JOHN CARTER SHANKS

Service Number: 5721920
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1940

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CUINCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row B. Grave 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Louisa Shanks; husband of Edith Violet Mabel Shanks, of Wallisdown, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
  • Personal Inscription GOD...HATH CALLED YOU UNTO HIS...GLORY I.THESS.II.12
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