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Lieutenant RICHARD ALNWICK SHACKLETON

Service Number: 228886
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

274 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 15 February 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OTTERSUM ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Grave 3.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Colonel Cedric Overton Shackleton, O.B.E., R.A.M.C., and Vera Shackleton, of South Newington, Oxfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT
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Buried or commemorated at

OTTERSUM ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 8
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