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Private GERVASE SHAW

Service Number: 4979724
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 March 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EAST RETFORD CEMETERY

Sec. A.K. Grave 228.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gervase and Emma Shaw, of Retford.
  • Personal Inscription PEACEFULLY SLEEPING FREE FROM PAIN IN GOD'S OWN TIME WE SHALL MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

EAST RETFORD CEMETERY
Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 35
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