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Private WILLIAM SHAW

Service Number: 14520553
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 July 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY

Row F. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Mary Shaw, of Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription HE FOUGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY AND THE RIGHT TO BE FREE. FONDLY REMEMBERED BY FATHER, JOE, MARY AND JOAN
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Buried or commemorated at

CAMBES-EN-PLAINE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 224
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