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Military service
Service number:
R/64712
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
42 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
November 29, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot B.14. Grave 1481.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
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Photo of Arthur Edmund Shaw
Born in Victoria on January 6, 1919, was the son of Charles E. and Bertha Shaw who lived in Victoria Corner before moving to Hartland. He attended school in Hartland and was a graduate of Hartland High School and from Provincial Normal School in Fredericton the following year and accepted a school at Upper Waterville where he taught until June, 1940, when he resigned to join the R.C.A.F. Royal Canadian Air Force Sgt.-Observer Shaw, along with the pilot, Laren Keswick, were returning to England from a bombing raid in Germany during WW2, flying too low, hit a power line and crashed. They were buried in a private burial lot in Kent, England.<P> At a memorial service, school classmates of the deceased, members of the Hartland branch of the Canadian Legion and No. 12 Platoon of the Carleton and York Regiment (RF) marched to the Hartland United Baptist Church in a body.<P> Submitted with permission of Etta Haywood Faulkner Woodstock NB<BR> By Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of ARTHUR EDMUND SHAW
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Christmas Card
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Photo of ARTHUR EDMUND SHAW
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Letter of recommendation
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Saint John Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Arthur Edmund Shaw
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 44 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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