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Lance Corporal JAMES EDWARD SHINKFIELD

Service Number: 650954
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)

21st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XVIII. C. 7A.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward John and Isabel Gertrude Shinkfield, of 27, Effingham St., Ramsgate, Kent. Born Peckham, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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