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Son of British Merchant Navy Captain Samuel Lewis Shaw and Ellen O'Sea Matsumuro from Tokyo, Japan.
On 10 December 1941, the Shinai was captured by the Japanese armed forces. Shaw was interned in a prison camp at Kutching, Surrawak, Borneo, Malaysia, where he died of heart failure on 13 February 1943.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 212 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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