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Driver JOHN WILLIAM SHAW

Service Number: 31239
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Heavy Artillery

36th Group

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

I. F. 70.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Sarah Shaw, of Rose St., Eastwood, New South Wales. Native of Mudgee, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription HE WEARS A TRUER CROWN THAN ANY WREATH THAT MAN CAN WEAVE HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2614
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