Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookng the wounds of a comrade at Festubert, France, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Ian Herbert C. Shannon.=] =SHANNON, WILLIAM HENRY=, Colour-Sergt.-Major, No. 9019, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of William Henry Shannon, of 42, Mountjoy Street, Dublin, late Corpl. 2nd Middlesex Regt., and Warder, Prisons Service, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of Rodger McGoldrick, of Dromahair, co. Leitrim; _b._ Rangoon, British Burmah, 15 March, 1882; educ. St. George's and Marlboro' Street National Schools, Dublin; was for a short time in the Prisons Service, then for about a year in the A.M. Corps; enlisted 5 Dec. 1902; served at Aldershot, Dublin, Butafant, Fermoy, Naas, and Gravesend, and was then posted to 1st Battn. in India; returned home end of Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July following. He _m._ at Gravesend Military Church, 18 Jan. 1915, Ada Amy (5, Albion Road, Gravesend), dau. of Charles Fennell, of 5, Albion Road, Gravesend; _s.p._ [Illustration: =William Henry Shannon.=] =SHAPTER, LEWIS HENRY=, Capt., 3rd Special Reserve (West Suffolk Militia) Battn. Suffolk Regt., _s._ of Lewis Shapter, of Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, M.D.; by his wife, Elizabeth Charlotte, dau. of Capt. Edgar Bayly, Suffolk Regt., and great grandson of Col. Richard Bayley, of the same regt., and nephew and adopted _s._ of Col. Charles Edward Brown, and of his wife, Frederica Louisa (Kahun, Talbot Hill, Bournemouth), née Bayly; _b._ Exeter, 7 Sept. 1886; educ. Stourwood College, near Bournemouth; obtained a commission in the West Suffolk Militia; promoted Lieut. 18 March 1905, and Capt.; had passed the School of Instruction and qualified as an Instructor of Musketry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, attd. to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., and was killed in action near Ypres, 31 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried in the Military Cemetery, Chateau Rosenberg, Croix le Blanc. [Illustration: =Lewis Henry Shapter.=] =SHARMON, FREDERICK=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 2009), 163555, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SHARP, ARTHUR=, Gunner, R.M.A., R.M.A. 12711, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SHARP, JOHN=, Private, No. 2330, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John Sharp, of 26, Gloucester Road, Hounslow Heath, Middlesex, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Louiza Annie, dau. of George Lovegrove; _b._ Station Road, Hounslow, 14 Sept. 1884; educ. there; was a Stone and Earthenware Carver; had joined the Middlesex Territorials, 11 Nov. 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Poljitze, 23 May following; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Sharp.=] =SHARP, VIVIAN KING=, Sapper, No. 67686, Royal Engineers, (Railway Section), yr. _s._ of Sidney Sharp, of The Grove, Ealing (formerly of Tangleymere, Chilworth, Surrey), Consulting Engineer, by his wife, Ellen Blanche, dau. of William Eager, of Whipley, Wonersh, Surrey; _b._ Surbiton, 6 Feb. 1891; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul's School, and was a keen oarsman and rowed in his House boat. In 1909 he entered the General Manager's Office of the Great Western Railway, and from the outbreak of war was engaged on military work in connection with the railway. He volunteered for the Front in Nov. 1914, was accepted in March following, his detachment being sent to France at the end of the month. After much good work he was invalided into hospital on 12 June, sent over to England to the 1st London General Hospital on the 18th, and died on the 20th; _unm._ =SHARP, WILLIAM CHARLES JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12874, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SHARRATT, SIMEON=, Private, No. 11391, No. 3 Coy. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Simeon Sharratt, of 1, High Fields Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, Felt Hat Maker, by his wife, Elizabeth; _b._ Nuneaton, 21 Sept. 1894; educ. Nuneaton and Hinckley Church Schools; was a Gardener; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, went to France, 22 Dec., was wounded in action near La Bassée, 24 Jan. 1915, and died on the 26th; _unm._ He was buried at Bethune. Sergt. V. White wrote: "A Private Clarke was badly hit by a sniper on 24 Jan. 1915, and your son went to his assistance, when he was shot, probably by the same sniper, through the wrist and stomach." [Illustration: =Simeon Sharratt.=] =SHATTOCK, MONTAGU DE MANCHA=, Capt., No. 4 Coy., 16th Battn. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Henry Foster Shattock, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Charlotte Rice (88A, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W.), dau. of James Allerton; _b._ Broad Green, Croydon, co. Surrey, 9 Oct. 1867; educ. St. John's, Hurstpierpoint, and King's College, London, and was afterwards a member of the Stock Exchange. He enlisted in the Queen's Westminsters in Nov. 1892, and after passing through the ranks as Corpl., Sergt and Colour-Sergt., obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 April, 1902, and was promoted Lieut. 6 June, 1903 and Capt. 21 March, 1905. He afterwards went through the Hythe musketry courses and became musketry instructor for the regt., under Lieut.-Col. A. Shoolbred, whose firm provides a company in the corps. He had resigned some time before the war broke out, but rejoined, and obtained his company again, 5 Aug. 1914. He went with his regt. to the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, presumably by a German sniper, in the trenches near River Lys, Armentières, France, 9 Jan. 1915, and was buried there behind the trenches; _unm._ In 1905 he captained the team of the Queen's Westminsters which defeated a team of the 7th New York National Guard at Bisley. In the following year he took a team to New York, the return match being won by the Americans. [Illustration: =M. de M. Shattock.=] =SHATTOCK, THOMAS HENRY=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 5731, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SHAVE, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5822), 187872, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SHAW, ALFRED=, Private, No. 2023, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of John Hellawell Shaw, of 36, George Street, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Wood; _b._ Marylebone, London, 13 June, 1871; educ. Huddersfield, co. York; went to Australia in March, 1910, and settled at Worsley Bush, Worsley, and worked on the Railways; joined the 11th Battn., 27 Jan. 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 27 April; went to the Dardanelles, 1 July; and was killed in action there, 1 Aug. following, during an early morning charge; _unm._ Buried there. =SHAW, BERNARD HENRY GILBERT=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of the Right Rev. Edward Domett Shaw, Lord Bishop of Buckingham, D.D., by his wife, Agnes, dau. of A |