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Private GEORGE ALFRED SHEARS

Service Number: 5682090
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FORLI WAR CEMETERY

VII, D, 12.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Norah Shears; husband of Dorothy Jane Shears, of Woking, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND GEORGE. HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"

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Buried or commemorated at

FORLI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 738
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