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Pte Christopher Shenton

1/20/1981

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Private Christopher Shenton of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment died on 20th January 1981.

Service Number: 24497200

He died aged 21, after being shot by a sniper at Castle Gate, City Walls, Londonderry, while on foot patrol.

They were closing security gates on the city walls at Castle Gate in Londonderry when the  attack occurred, at around 7:30PM. A number of high velocity shots had been fired from the Waterloo Street area. The bullet that killed Pte Shenton passed through the security gate. He was shot in the back and another soldier was wounded. CHristopher died instantly.

After training at Whittington Barracks (where he won the Medal for best S.L R shot of his platoon), Christopher joined the 1st Battalion at Colchester in February 1977, and immediately went with the Battalion to exercise in Kenya. He subsequently trained at Lydd, Hythe and Stanford, and moved to Londonderry with his company in August 1979. 

At the military funeral at Dresden, near Longdon, Stone-on-Trent, on Wednesday 28th January, there were in congregation (which overflowed the church) a large number of his fellow soldiers, who had arrived on leave the evening before. The funeral was also attended by the Colonel of the regiment, the Commanding officer, of 1st Battalion and numerous civic representatives, as well as the association and wider regimental family. 

He was born on 20th March 1959 and his nickname was Sharky. 
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Mick Perkins
9/7/2020 05:50:56 pm

I knew Sharky from my time in the REME attached to the Staffords. He was in the Batallion shooting team and i used to look after their weapons during training for Bisley. We all went out for a drink after training in Whittington Barracks and Tidworth camp.
He was a friendly guy with a good sense of humour and it was a great shock when he was killed. Ebrington Barracks Londonderry had a strange atmosphere for weeks afterwards.
I salute Chris and it was a pleasure to know him.
I will Never forget you.

Mick

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Barry Sinclair
12/17/2023 09:38:15 am

Hi I was with sharkey for a period of time we had so much fun he was a laugh a minute great guy I will never forget him, good memories of a true friend Quality cloth, one in a million super star.

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    This roll of honour is to remember those Staffords who died on deployment or operations since the end of WW2. All care has been taken to identify those soldiers using all publicly available information.

    Deployment

    All
    Aden Emergency
    Cyprus
    Cyprus Emergency
    Egypt
    Germany
    Hong Kong
    Kenya
    Korea
    Op Banner
    Op Granby
    Op Herrick
    Op Telic
    Palestine
    Scotland
    Suez Emergency

    Date

    November 2013
    June 2011
    March 2007
    July 2005
    March 2000
    August 1997
    July 1995
    May 1992
    February 1991
    September 1990
    September 1989
    August 1989
    December 1986
    May 1984
    January 1981
    June 1980
    September 1976
    October 1974
    October 1972
    November 1969
    September 1965
    December 1963
    May 1963
    January 1963
    October 1962
    December 1960
    November 1957
    April 1956
    March 1956
    October 1955
    August 1955
    July 1955
    November 1953
    September 1951
    April 1951
    January 1951
    September 1950
    June 1950
    February 1950
    December 1949
    March 1948
    February 1948
    November 1946
    June 1946

    Author

    Maintained by Robert Pritchard

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