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Private WILLIAM SHAY

Service Number: 5187351
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 November 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MORTLAKE CEMETERY

Plot 6. Sec. A. Grave 34.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Shay, and of Kate Shay, of Shepherd's Bush, London; husband of Gladys Shay.
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Buried or commemorated at

MORTLAKE CEMETERY
Surrey United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 109
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