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Military service
Service number:
J/9636
Age:
30
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
August 25, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 4152.
Additional information
Son of William Leigh Shaw and of May Shaw (nee Neilson), of Simcoe, Ontario. His brother, Ernest Anson Shaw, also died on service.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
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Newspaper Clipping
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Grave Marker
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer George Leigh Shaw
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON CEMETERY Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Startford-Upon-Avon Cemetery contains 22 First World War burials, made mainly from the hospital at Clopton House. During the Second World War, there was a contingent of the Royal Canadian Air Force based at nearby Wellesboune Mountford and of the 137 Second World War burials (most of them forming a war graves plot), 97 are of Canadian airmen. The cemetery also contains 15 war graves of other nationalities.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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