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Staff Serjeant ARTHUR EDMUND SHEWELL

Service Number: 3953745
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1942

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY

2. E. 4.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur and Dorcas Shewell; husband of Rosa Beatrix Shewell, of Witton, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription FOR THOU WERT FAITHFUL, STRONG AND TRUE, MY WHITE KNIGHT. MIZPAH
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Buried or commemorated at

TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 366
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