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Flying Officer ALFRED WILSON SHIRLEY

Service Number: J/14201
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Air Force

427 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 February 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot 4. Row AA. Grave 12.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Clifford William and Velma Grace Shirley; husband of Anita Pearl Shirley, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription HE LOVED HONOUR MORE THAN HE FEARED DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3324
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