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Lance Corporal WILLIAM THOMAS SHAW

Service Number: 6016934
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

1/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 April 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

7. N. 1.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jane Shaw, of Manor Park, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription NOT A SOUL PASSES BUT GOD KNOWS
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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