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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Last residence Victoria, British Columbia
• Family Son of George Walter and Eleanor Shipton, of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
• Extra info Husband of Olive Shipton, of Mount Crown Apartments, North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Medals M C, M M
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Canadian Mounted Rifles
• Other data related to military career Came overseas with the 2nd C.M.R. as a ranker; Military Medal in June 1916 and commissioned;
  
  M C ' For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
  duty. He was in charge of a party of men
  detailed for stretcher-bearer work. He
  organised his squads, and, regardless of
  danger, went forward locating and dressing
  the wounded under fire. Later, .he guided
  his squads to these wounded cases, and
  evacuated them to the rear. He carried
  back himself a wounded man whom he had
  found close to an enemy "pill-box"' (LG 23/04/1918)

Death

• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds to both legs, n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - FF - 9

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