Private
Shipway, Frank
Unit
25th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles)
Branch
Infantry
Service Component
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service Number
412637
birth
1895/02/28
Cleveland, Ireland
death
1916/06/03
Belgium
grave
Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium
Gender
Male
Frank Shipway was born in Cleveland, Somerset, England, on 28 February 1895.
A farm labourer, Shipway enlisted in the 39th Canadian Infantry Battalion in Port Hope, Ontario, on 6 March 1915. He was later transferred to the 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles). He was killed on 3 June 1916, during the Battle of Mount Sorrel, when a trench mortar shell landed in the trench where he was on duty.
Frank Shipway is buried in Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, in Belgium.
