Captain Eric Piers SHAKERLEY

Captain Eric Piers Shakerley{gallery}Cpt E P Shakerley{/gallery}6th Battalion att. to 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Killed in action at Givenchy, France and Flanders, 10th March 1915 aged 30

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panel 32 and 33
Awarded 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medals, Order of the Medjidie (4th Class)
Son of Cpt Geoffrey Joseph and Emma Shakerley [nee Butler] of Weddington Hall
Brother 2nd Lt Arthur C Shakerley and Lt Col Geoffrey C Shakerley
NNWFHS Memorial: Weddington

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Born 8 Mar 1885 at Atcham, Shropshire
Educated at Clifton College and Cooper’s Hill
Lived at 159 Fulham Road, Chelsea [1915 Probate Records]
Employed in the Sudan Irrigation Service 1906 to 1913
Promoted and gazetted as Lieutenant 15 Aug 1914 and as Captain 24 Nov 1914
Disembarked in theatre 14 Nov 1914

Circumstances of Cpt Shakerley’s death
On 10th March 1915, Capt Shakerley was in command of an assault party which came under heavy machine gun fire but he managed to get within 5 yards of the enemy trench before he was shot dead. He was Mentioned in Despatches by Field Marshall Sir John French on 22 Jun 1915 for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

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