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Corporal ARTHUR JOHN SHAW

Service Number: 3446198
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XIX. E. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Beatrice Shaw, of Manchester; husband of Dorothy Violet Shaw, of Ardwick, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription HE LEFT HOME YOUNG AND BRAVE WE LITTLE THOUGHT HE'D SOON BE LAID IN A HERO'S GRAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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