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Name: R T SHAW
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RN
Ship/station: H.M.S. Hermes
Date of death: 1942-04-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Ceylon
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 6B, Row P, Grave 3
Family details: Son of Raymond Henry and Katharine Shaw; husband of Daphne Laura Ursula Shaw, of Porthcawl, Glamorgan.
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RN
Ship/station: H.M.S. Hermes
Date of death: 1942-04-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Ceylon
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 6B, Row P, Grave 3
Family details: Son of Raymond Henry and Katharine Shaw; husband of Daphne Laura Ursula Shaw, of Porthcawl, Glamorgan.
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