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Private WILLIAM GEORGE SHAW

Service Number: 4348344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 12.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Annie Shaw; husband of Winifred Shaw, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY R.I.P.

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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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