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Private G SHAW

Service Number: 8208
Regiment & Unit/Ship

North Staffordshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

XXXI. K. 7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Samuel and Selina Shaw, of Hanley; husband of Ada May Knight (formerly Shaw), of 55, Trafalgar St., Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription NOT MY WILL BUT THINE O LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 5523
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