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Constable GEORGE COLIN SHIPLEY

Service Number: 649
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Palestine Police Force

Date of Death

Died 08 December 1947

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAIFA (SHARON) BRITISH CIVIL CEMETERY

Plot 13. Grave 1.

Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Alfred Shipley and of Hilda Maud Shipley, of Malton, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE
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Buried or commemorated at

HAIFA (SHARON) BRITISH CIVIL CEMETERY
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Number of casualties: 98
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