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Lance Corporal WILLIAM SHAW

Service Number: R/816
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE BURIAL GROUND CEMETERY

Q. 7.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Emma Shaw, of 35, Dorning St., Swinton, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN HE THAT LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

POTIJZE BURIAL GROUND CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 586
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