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Sgt. John James Shields MM.
British Army 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment

(d.10th Jul 1916)
John James Shields died aged 20 during the Battle of the Somme. he was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Richard and Martha Shields (nee Carty) of Jarrow. In the 1911 Census John James Shields, age 15, a Billiard Marker, is listed as living with his Widowed Mother Martha Shields & his siblings at 77 Commercial road Back, Jarrow. He enlisted in Wallsend and first served in France on 26th August 1915.
John is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No.2 and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.

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