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Eric Arthur Shaw
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About Eric Arthur

  • Name
    Eric Arthur
  • Initials
    EA
  • Surname
    Shaw
  • Date of Birth
    1895
  • Birth town
    Northampton
  • Resided town
    Northampton
  • Commemorated
    Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium
  • Nationality
    English
  • Place of death
    France
  • Date of death
    22 October 1917
  • Married
  • Occupation
    Shoe Trade - Welt Tapper

Service Information

  • Army

  • Service Number
    3433/58001
  • Rank
    Sapper
  • Regiment
    Royal Engineers

Biography

Eric (Maurice) Arthur Shaw was born in 1895 to parents Nathaniel and Martha (nee Dommett) and lived at 33 Bective Road, Kingsthorpe, Northampton. He was one of eight children and the family were employed in the shoe trade; Eric as a welt tapper.

Eric joined the East Anglian Field Company, Royal Engineers as a Territorial on 15 November 1915, in Northampton, aged 20 years and 9 months.  He trained with 1st and 64th Training Reserve and had no misconduct reports.  He passed through the East Station at Peterborough and signed the visitors’ book on 15 November 1916, just a month before leaving for France.

He served in France from 20 December 1916, and was posted to the 9th Cheshire Regiment on 4 January 1917, and the 16th Cheshire Regiment on 15 January 1917, until his death on 22 October 1917.  Eric was ‘Killed in Action’ in France on 22 October 1917, and is commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial (panel 61 – 63).

He was awarded the British War and Allied Victory medals.

His brother, Francis served with the Northamptonshire Regiment and returned from the Middle East suffering from TB and malaria.

 

Campaign Medals

The Allied Victory Medal
The British War Medal, 1914-18

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