Source: Royal Bank Web Site
Family Search: When Private Arthur John Murton Shore was born on 29 December 1894, in Port Rowan, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, his father, Arthur Shore, was 29 and his mother, Edith Rickword Shaw Hellier, was 26. He lived in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ridgetown, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 22, his occupation is listed as bank clerk, Royal Bank of Canada in Ridgetown, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 November 1917, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 22, and was buried in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
His brother, John Edward Shore.
Incorrectly listed with the rank of Lieutenant at Royal Bank Roll of Honour Site.
John Arthur Murton Shore
LIEUTENANT SHORE, born at Port Rowan, Ontario, December 30, 1894. Home in Ilderton, Ontario. Joined Windsor, Ontario branch, September 22, 1913. Enlisted from St. Marys, Ontario branch, March 2, 1916, in the 186thBattalion. Served later with the 18th Battalion. Present at Mons and Passchendaele. Killed in action at Passchendaele, November 11, 1917.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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