Cemetery: Pozieres Memorial
Country: France
Area: Somme
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Official Number:
Unit: A Coy. 8th Bn. East Surrey Regiment.
Country of Service: British
Details: 23rd March 1918. Age 20. Elder son of Arthur Fleetwood Shrapnel and Kate Shrapnel of 27 Wavertree Rd. Streatham Hill London. A descendant of Lt. Gen. Shrapnel the inventor of the shell which bears his name. Educated at Wilson's Grammar School Camberwell and at the age of 17 won an open scholarship at Magdalen College Oxford. Gazetted to a commission in 1915. Panel 44 and 45.
Photograph by Martin Harvey