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Lance Corporal EDWARD SHEARER

Service Number: 2822973
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 May 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

5. A. 2.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Skinner Shearer and Williamina Sinclair Shearer, of Portmahomack, Ross and Cromarty.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST OUR BELOVED "SONNY" EVER LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY HIS PARENTS AND SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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