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Private JAMES ALEXANDER JOHNSTONE SHAW

Service Number: 16857
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Scottish Borderers

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 October 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. C. 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Jane Shaw, of Drumlanrig Bridge, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE FOLLOWED WHERE DUTY LED AND FOUND A FULLER LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1126
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