Shaw, Harry
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: Nov. 19, 1917
Military Camps to which went:
* Halifax, N.S. [Nova Scotia, Canada]
* Newhaven [England]
* Shoreham [England]
* Aldershot, Eng.
* Boulogne [France]
* Ypres, France [i.e., Belgium]
* Murmansk [Russia, i.e., Soviet Union]
* Arkangel, Russia [Soviet Union]
Units to which belonged:
* 3rd Sussex Inf. [British Regiment]
* 11th Sussex Inf. [British Regiment]
Date of trip overseas: Feb. 6, 1918
Service there:
* 8 [months] England
* 3 [months] France
* 11 [months] Russia
Date of return: Oct 1st 1919
Date of demobilization: Oct 28 1919
Honors received:
* British G.S. Medal
* Victory Medal
* and Russian Bar

 

 

NOTES
The Halifax Explosion (Maritime Museum of the Atlantic)
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/atoz/HalExpl.html
-- It would seem that he was in Halifax at the time of the devastating
explosion, which may well have delayed his departure for England,
until Feb. 1918

Newhaven Fort During World War 1 (Newhaven Fort, Fort Road, Newhaven, East
Sussex)
http://www.newhavenfort.org.uk/newhaven_fort_ww1.htm

War Memorial Shoreham (Tracesofwar.com. England - Kent - Shoreham)
http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/18331/War-Memorial-Shoreham.htm

Aldershot

Boulogne

Ypres and the Great War in Flanders Fields (Toerisme-Leper.be)
http://www.toerisme-ieper.be/en/page/334/ypres-and-the-great-war-in-flanders-fields.html

North Russian Intervention (Wikipedia)
https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#q=murmansk%2C+wwi

British Military Delegation to Visit British WWI Tombs in Murmansk (Russkiy
Mir Foundation)
http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/news/common/news1622.html