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Trooper EDWARD SHADFORTH

Service Number: 7941394
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

46th (The Liverpool Welsh)

Date of Death

Died 21 July 1943

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. C. 19.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Irwin Shadforth, and of Eliza A. Shadforth, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription IN HONOUR CHIVALROUS IN COURAGE VALOROUS CLEAN TO THE HEART'S CORE
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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