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Private THOMAS JAMES SHAW

Service Number: 4689636
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1942

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY

3. D. 17.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Harriet Shaw, of South Kirkby, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "ABIDE WITH ME; FAST FALLS THE EVENTIDE... LORD, WITH ME ABIDE! THY WILL BE DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1421
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