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Trooper EDGAR JOHN HERBERT SHIRLEY

Service Number: A/59307
Regiment & Unit/Ship

8th Princess Louise's (New Brunswick) Hussars, R.C.A.C.

5th Armd. Regt

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANCONA WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 20.

Italy

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Elizabeth Shirley, of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

ANCONA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1021
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