Raymond Shaw

Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield: SHAW, RAYMOND. Sapper. No 440433. 428th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Born Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, 10.5.1893. Son of John William and Lizzie Shaw, 23 Frederick Street, Crosland Moor. Educated Crosland Moor Council School and Longwood Grammar School. Employed as a clerk at the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Huddersfield which he joined in September 1913. Had previously worked at the Hunslet and Cleckheaton branches. Single. Enlisted 15.8.1915. Was drowned in the Mediterrean on 1.1.1917, when the troopship SS Ivernia was sunk by a U-boat, aged 23. Has no known grave. Commemorated MIKRA MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, SALONIKA. ROH:- Crosland Moor Wesleyan Church; St. Barnabas Church, Crosland Moor.