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Pilot Officer DERICK ROY O'REILLEY SHEARBURN

Service Number: 174589
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

181 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 22 September 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EINDHOVEN (WOENSEL) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot KK. Grave 207.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Frederick Shearburn, Indian Army, and Barbara Ann Shearburn, of Crowborough, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription OUR BELOVED SON ROY. "ALL YOU HAD HOPED FOR, ALL YOU HAD, YOU GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND"
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