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Lance Corporal MICHAEL SHIMES

Service Number: 7014605
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Ulster Rifles

1st Bn. The London Irish Rifles

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

III. E. 23.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Edith Elizabeth Shimes; husband of Violet Mary Mabel Shimes, of Dagenham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription MICHAEL AS LONG AS MEMORIES LAST WE WILL REMEMBER THE JOYS OF THE PAST
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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