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Shaw, Alfred Frederick
Rank : 2nd Lieutenant
Unit : 8th Bn
Biography :
Educated at Mundella School (Nottingham) Alfred Shaw served with the 8th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment during World War One. He was Killed in Action at Polygon Wood, near Ypres, on 1.10.1917, aged 20. He is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. He is also remembered on Mundella School (now in St Mary's Church) War Memorial as A Shaw.
There is a paper file on him in The National Archives (File Ref: WO 374/61608).
This page was last updated on 7.3.2019.
Date of Birth : Jan 1897
Place of Birth : Nottingham
Date of Death : 1.10.1917
Place of Death : Polygon Wood, E of Ypres, Belgium
Civil Occupation : cricket bat maker
Period of Service : 1915-17
Conflicts : WW1
Places Served : France and Belgium
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