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{{Personnel
|id=183
|Surname and forenames=Shanks Owen
|Army number=2751652
|Rank=Sgt then 2/Lt
|Decorations=M.M.
|Date of birth=Birth registered in Belfast Q4 1910.
|Age=35 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Black Watch 17/9/1927 aged 18 (Labourer).  Rose to Sergeant - Acting Company Sergeant Major.  Immediate Emergency Commission from the ranks as a 2/Lt in The Black Watch with Officer number 329143 24/7/1944. Posted 1 TS 24/7/1944.  With the Battalion on disbandment.  Posted 7th Bn Black Watch, KILLED in ACTION 8/2/45 with 7th Black Watch.
|Company/Battery=D Coy
|Task or role=CSM.  Duty Officer.
|Promotions=A/CSM, Emergency Commission 2/Lt (329143)
|Died/Killed in action=08-Feb-45
|Home address=Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Shanks, husband of Grace Darling Shanks of Loanhead, Midlothian.  Buried Grave 14.G. 3. Jonkerbos War Cemetery.
|Source table=1TS
}}