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Pilot Officer WILLIAM LAWSON SHAW

Service Number: 196054
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

161 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 23 March 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY

Grave 74.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Mary Shaw, of Greenhill, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
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Buried or commemorated at

VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY
Friesland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 48
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