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Stanley Shankster

Second Lieutenant

Service No. Unknown

Age 26

Died on 3 July 1916

Lincolnshire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of George Calvin Shankster and Eliza Ann Shankster, of Liverpool House, Dudley St., Grimsby.

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Steve Johnson

Stanley played his part for king and country paying the heaviest price. This brave Officer from Grimsby will not be forgtten

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Henry Harrison

Stanley, O valiant heart, who to your glory came….your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Stanley, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blow...

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