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Craftsman BASIL SHAWCROSS

Service Number: 10583925
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

27 Tank Troops Workshop

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

IV. B. 22.

France

Individual headstone of Craftsman B Shawcross in Brouay War Cemetery, France

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Alice Shawcross, of Poynton, Cheshire; husband of Dorothy Shawcross.
  • Personal Inscription TO OUR BELOVED SON IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING. DAD AND MUM
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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