Private PLY/881 (S) Robert SHAW
2nd Royal Marine Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry
Killed in Action, Friday 2nd February 1917, 28, Age 28
Home address:
7 Hallbottom Place, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1888, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Jane Shaw and John Charles Shaw
7 Hallbottom Place, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Labourer, Boiler Works
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France, plot VIII, row B, grave 2.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
Greater love hath no man.
The fallen of St. Andrew’s Mission Church, John Street.
W. Brunt (22nd Manchesters), J. Elliot (2nd South Lancs.), and R. Shaw (R.M.L.I.).
The fallen of St. Andrew’s Mission Church, John Street.
W. Brunt (22nd Manchesters), J. Elliot (2nd South Lancs.), and R. Shaw (R.M.L.I.).