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Lance Corporal JOSEPH SHREAD

Service Number: 5250322
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 09 November 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WALSALL (RYECROFT) CEMETERY

Sec. 31. Grave 14.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Dora Shread; husband of Elizabeth Mary Shread, of Walsall.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN HE WHO LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS LOVED ONES
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Buried or commemorated at

WALSALL (RYECROFT) CEMETERY
Staffordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 177
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