Second Lieutenant - Frank Leslie Shield - Royal Air Force.

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Commonwealth Graves Commission wish to make contact with any family members of Second Lieutenant Frank Leslie Shield. Death 2 June 1918.

FIND A GRAVE - Frank Leslie Shield - Second Lieutenant, 63rd Training Squadron, Royal Air Force.

Lodge Hill Cemetery and Crematorium Birmingham, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands.
PLOT   B12. 53.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134725203

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134725203#view-photo=111618174

The private memorial marking the grave of Second Lieutenant Frank Leslie Shield  no longer provides adequate commemoration. Hence the CWGC are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

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Frank Leslie Shield 2 June 1918 - Birmingham West Midlands. Probate 19 August 1918 - Birmingham.
Frank of Bodnant Bristol Road Selly Oak Birmingham - died 2 June 1918 - Joyce Green Dartford Kent.
Admin Birmingham to Alfred Shield - Pawnbroker.  £586 - 9s 6d.

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Ralph Vincent Shield born 1900 122 Linden Road, Bournville, Bournbrook, Worcestershire was a brother to Frank.

Ralph Vincent Shield - RNVR Division - Service Number Z/10449 - Bristol

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7672299

Ralph Marriage 1923 - Ida M Greenwood - 6d 641 Birmingham

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Ralph Vincent Shield - 1899 - 1962 - Bournemouth Hampshire - 6b 149

Ida Mary Shield - 20 February 1900 - January 1980 - aged 79 years - Bournemouth. Dorset - 23 - 0207

Ralph and Ida returned from Australia 16 August 1924 -

Couple do not appear to have had children.

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Brother Sidney/Sydney Shield - bachelor - chartered acccountant - aged 23 - 104 Northfield Road, Harborne. Father Alfred Shield - Pawnbroker - deceased.
Married Nora Joyce Mary Fairbank - spinster -clerk - aged 24 years - father Tom Fairbank - traveller - 88 Bournbrook Road. Bournbrook. 5 July 1929 - Harborne Parish Church.

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Sidney Sheild 28 January 1906 - baptised  4 June 1929 - passed away January 1980 Bodmin Cornwall - vol 21 - page 0023

Its possible Sidney and Nora divorced.

There is a marriage Staines 1943 - Nora M J Shield - Dennis O Hougham - 3a 134

FIND A GRAVE

1 st February1980

St. Menefreda Churchyard St Minver Highlands, Cornwall Unitary Authority, Cornwall, England
PLOT   North East of Church.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172710758

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Franks Mum Kate Shield passed away 21 December 1917 - Birmingham West Midlands - probate 24 January 1918 - probate to Alfred Shield - Pawnbroker.

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Franks father Alfred Shield passes away January 1925 - Birmingham - 6d 60

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Leicester Journal - Friday 7 th June 1918 - Mid Air Collision.  Frank Leslie Shield

.. FATAL MID AIR COLLISION. A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest •t Dartford as Lieutenant Frank Leslie Shield and Lieutenant John Percival Ryoeveld, two dying officers, who were killed in a collision in the air on Sunday. It is stated ...

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Lancashire Evening Post  - Tuesday 4 June 1918

COLLISION 2,COS FEET UP. An inquest was held at Dartford, yesterday, concerning the deaths of



Lieutenant Frank Leslie Shield and Lieutenant John Percival von Ryneveld, two flying officers, whose machines collided in the air on Sunday. Lieutenant Herbert ...

Western Daily Press - Tuesday 4 June 1918

FEET UP. INQUEST ON TWO FLIGHT OFFICERS The inquest was held at Dartford, yesterday, concerning the deaths of Lieut. Frank Leslie Shield and Lieut. John -Percival yon Ryneveld, two flying officers, whose machines collided the air Sunday. Lieut. Herbert ...

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