He was aged 30 and was, what nowadays would be termed, Special Educational Needs. How much would he have known about what he was doing?
Deryck & Jane Shackleton
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O J Shackleton
Private
Service No. 3625
Age 30
Died on 22 September 1917
Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
CANADA FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Son of Abraham Owen Shackleton and Jane Amelia Shackleton, of 56, Leigh Hall Rd., Leigh-on-Sea.
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Deryck's great-uncle who died so young and whose youngest brother Alfred, died the year before in 1916.
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Owen John Shackleton, died aged 30, would now have been classed as Special Educational Needs. He died a year after his youngest brother.
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