Gerald Frank Shaw

A Private with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Gerald died on 26th of June 1943 aged 28. 

Gerald was born at Minehead, Somerset, on 15 February 1915, a son of Frank and Ethel Annie Shaw. His father was killed in 1917 whilst serving with the Somerset Light Infantry. His family lived at The Shrubbery, White Hart Street, East Harling, Norfolk.  By 1939 his family were living at 12 Whapload Road, Lowestoft, and Gerald worked as a printer's estimating clerk. Later his mother lived at Oulton Broad. 

Gerald's precise unit is not stated on Commonwealth War Graves or Far East Prisoner of War records, but it is likely that he was in one of the units in 18 Division and that he arrived at Singapore in January 1942.

Gerald was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and was sent to work on the Burma Railway. He died whilst a prisoner of war in Japanese hands.