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Private William Shaw

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Military service

Service number: 171686
Age: 39
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 3rd Bn.
Birth: August 26, 1879
Death: August 31, 1918

Burial/memorial information

SUN QUARRY CEMETERY
Grave reference: C. 6.
Additional information
Brother of Mr. C. L. Shaw, of Hall Farm, Fornham All Saints, Bury St. Edmund's, England.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 499 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUN QUARRY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Cherisy is a village approximately 13 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is 1.5 kilometres south-east of the village on the north-east side of the D38 road to Hendecourt. Cherisy village was captured by the Allied 18th Division on May 3, 1917, but lost the same night; and it remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Canadian Corps on August 27, 1918. The cemetery takes it name from a flint quarry, known to the British Army as Sun Quarry, located a short distance south-east of Cherisy. The Cemetery covers an area of 462 square metres and is enclosed by brick walls.

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