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Fred Hubert Shaw

In memory of:

Private Fred Hubert Shaw

September 2, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

2138610

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)

Division:

72nd Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

April 21, 1892

Commemorated on Page 499 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

V. H. 28.

Location:

Duisans and Etrun are villages in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, about 9 kilometres west of Arras. The DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY lies in Etrun but takes its name from the nearer village of Duisans. It is one kilometre north of Duisans on the D339 road off the Route nationale N39 (Arras-St Pol), in the angle of the Arras Habarcq road and a track leading to Haute-Avesnes.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Cemetery– This is a family marker in the Ladysmith Cemetery in Ladysmith, B.C. Private Shaw is actually buried in Duisans British Cemetery in the Pas de Calais area of France, just west of Arras. A look at the 72nd Battalion's War Diary suggests that Private Shaw sustained his fatal wound during the attack on the Drocourt–Quéant Line.

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    Cemetery – This is a family marker in the Ladysmith Cemetery in Ladysmith, B.C. Private Shaw is actually buried in Duisans British Cemetery in the Pas de Calais area of France, just west of Arras. A look at the 72nd Battalion's War Diary suggests that Private Shaw sustained his fatal wound during the attack on the Drocourt–Quéant Line.

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