BORN HESSLE 1899. SON OF GEORGE LAWRENCE SHACKLES (1851-1926) & GERTRUDE MARY HOLMES (1862-1941), OF SOUTH FIELD ROAD, HESSLE (1901 CENSUS) AND WICKERSLY, BROUGH, EAST RIDING. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. SON OF A SOLICITOR. HE WAS COMMISSIONED INTO THE 10TH KINGS SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS FOR GALLANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/09/1918, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE VIS-EN ARTOIS MEMORIAL, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE
HIS BROTHER, 2ND LIEUTENANT, KENNETH GEORGE SHACKLES, 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 11/05/1917, AGED 20.
THEIR SISTER RUTH CHRISTABEL SHACKLES, SERVED AS A NURSE IN THE WAR.
Second Lieutenant Ronald Guy Shackles MC, 10th Bn. King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
School House, left in 1913. Killed in action by a shell in France on 19th September 1918, aged 19.
He won his MC after being in France for little more than a month. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had led a successful daylight raid against an enemy post which he had located by two days’ careful reconnaissance in ‘No Man’s Land.’ In the hand-to-hand fighting that took place the whole enemy garrison was accounted for, and our own party suffered no casualties. 2nd Lt. Shackles handled his men with much skill, and displayed great gallantry and energy.”
He is brother, Kenneth George Shackles, was killed on 11th May 1917.
Remembered on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France. Panel 8.
