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Private H J SHANKS

Service Number: 265855
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st/1st Bucks Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3

I. A. 15.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Annie Shanks, of Windsor.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 974
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