Captain VICTOR GEORGE FLEETWOOD SHRAPNEL
Regiment & Unit/Ship
East Surrey Regiment
"A" Coy. 8th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 23 March 1918
Age 20 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Elder son of Arthur Fleetwood Shrapnel and Kate Shrapnel, of 27, Wavertree Rd., Streatham Hill, London. A descendant of Lt. Gen. Shrapnel, the inventor of the shell which bears his name. Educated at Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and at the age of 17 won an open scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford. Gazetted to a commission in 1915.
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