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Private DOUGLAS SHAW

Service Number: 5111744
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KORTRIJK (ST. JAN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row C. Grave 59.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Leonard and Martha Shaw, of Porthill, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN SILENCE WE REMEBER. MOTHER AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

KORTRIJK (ST. JAN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 255
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