This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. H. Shopland (Albert Henry Shopland) (Shopland, Albert Henry) Service no 701250 Lance Sergeant, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), 24th Battalion Died of wounds on 16 August 1917, aged 24 Canadian; born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, enlisted in Ealing CWGC: "Son of William Robert and of Jane Shopland (formerly Scott), of 10 Rozel Road, Clapham, London, England." Remembered at Vimy Memorial, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Canadian Soldiers of World War 1914-1918 Albert Henry Shopland, 23, joined the war effort on 17 March 1916, when he attested at Winnipeg, Canada. He was at that time working as a farmer in Yarbo, Saschatchewan. Shopland was born on 19 August 1892 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and had lived as a child at 41a Goldsboro Road, near Wandsworth Road. He stood 5 feet 11 inches tall, and had a fair complexion with blue eyes and dark brown hair. He stated that he had previously served with the Royal West Surrey Territorials. He was unmarried. Information from the censuses It is likely that Albert Shopland left England before 1911. He does not appear on the 1911 census return for the Shopland family at 41a Goldsboro Road (where the family had lived since at least 1901). Shopland's father, William Robert Shopland, 49, was a coach body maker born at Bridgwater, Somerset; his mother, Jane Shopland, 45, was from Windsor, Berkshire. Kathleen Shopland, two years Albert's junior, was 16 and, like him, born in Cheltenham. His younger siblings, Edith Mary Shopland, 14, and Frederick Thomas, 9, were born in London. William and Jane had eight babies born alive, three of whom died. |
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