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Serjeant WILLIAM HENRY SHAW

Service Number: 4688407
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Date of Death

Died 16 January 1945

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY

2. D. 27.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick and Annie Shaw, of Sheffield; husband of Ethel Shaw, of Sheffield.
  • Personal Inscription MAY THE WINDS OF HEAVEN BLOW SOFTLY O'ER THIS SWEET AND HALLOWED SPOT

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Buried or commemorated at

NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 2032
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