William Percy Shaw
Rank: Private
Service No: 40852
Date of Death: 08/01/1919
Age: 25
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.
Grave Reference: 11. 776. (G016)
Cemetery: KIRKBURTON (ALL HALLOWS) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of Robert Beeley Shaw and Mary Elizabeth Shaw, of Low Gate, Kirkburton. A repatriated prisoner of war.
Elder brother of Roger Ryan Shaw who served in the Machine Gun Corps and died in France in 1918 aged 21.
The inscription records he died on the hospital ship SS Guildford Castle.