39330 Private Uriah Shaw of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers:

 

He died of wounds on the 30 October 1916, aged 36 years, and he is buried in the Guards’ Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.

 

Uriah Shaw was born at Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1880 to Uriah Shaw and Christiana Crawton who were married at St John’s Church, Godley, Hyde, Cheshire, in 1866. In 1911 he was resident with his widowed mother and sister, Hannah (28), on Quay Street, Stalybridge, employed as a carter.

Peter Whitehead