Captain Cyril Richmond Shannon

Regiment: Royal Engineers
Panel reference: Panel 4 and 5.
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 04/10/1915
Cemetery: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information: Captain Cyril Richmond Shannon, 101st Field Company, R.E., was killed in Flanders while putting finishing touches to some barbed wire entanglements in front of the trenches just taken from the Germans. He was a son of the late Mr. Robert Shannon, M.I.C.E., and Mrs. Shannon, and had spent a good many years in India, China and Japan, and was a remarkably keen linguist. Captain Shannon was educated at the High School, Dublin, and subsequently at Woolwich and Bath College. He went to France on August 7th, 1914, and received his Captaincy in October of the same year.