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Lance Corporal JOHN SHIELDS

Service Number: 7/1004
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

"G" Coy.

Date of Death

Died 22 April 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

B. 173.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Ella Shields, of Puerua, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 2004
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