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Serjeant ROBERT LAIRD SHAW

Service Number: 2076933
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

240 Army Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 25 December 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY

2. A. 7.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of John Nisbet Shaw and Agnes Chalmers Notman Shaw, of Chapelhall, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription TIS SAD BUT TRUE WE WONDER WHY THE BEST ARE ALWAYS FIRST TO DIE
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