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Identity
Person No.
40920
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Shales Frederick
Initials
S F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Military Service
Rank
Captain
Secondary Unit
Regimental Band, HQ Coy.
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Son of Henry James and Mrs. Isabel Elizabeth Lane, of The Hollies, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft. His brother also died in service.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '114822' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40918 to 40921 -- 4 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40918, McCORMICK, Douglas (I R)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

Citations

***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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