John William Isaac Shaw

A Stoker 1st Class with H.M.S. Dulverton, John died on 15th of February 1945 aged 29. 

John was born at Shirebrook, Derbyshire, in 1915, a son of John William and Selina (Lena) Shaw. He was baptised at Shirebrook on 13 October 1915. In 1921 his family lived at 49 Devonshire Street, Shirebrook. John married Dorothy Jackson at Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook, in 1938.

At some point Dorothy moved to Lowestoft. She remarried in 1946 and continued to live in the Lowestoft area. 

Commonwealth War Graves records show that John had served with the destroyer H.M.S. Dulverton. The Dulverton was bombed by German aircraft, off Greece, on 13 November 1943 and was scuttled. John’s name does not appear in the Royal Navy War Graves roll and his death was registered in the Shirebrook district. It seems, therefore, that John was wounded, or injured, in the loss of the Dulverton and discharged from the navy, then dying at Shirebrook in 1945.