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Private EDWARD HANDSHAW

Service Number: 4611372
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 December 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

VI. L. 7.

Tunisia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Gunson Handshaw and Catherine Handshaw; husband of Jane Handshaw, of Ripon, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription REMEMBRANCE IS A GOLDEN CHAIN THAT BINDS US TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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