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Sgt. Eric Shaw
Royal Air Force 101 Squadron
from:Belfast
(d.12th March 1943)
I have today discovered that I had a brother about whom our parents never spoke, he died before I was born.
Eric Shaw was an air gunner in a Lancaster from Holme on Spalding Moor in a raid on the Krupp factories in Essen. Three aircraft took off, two returned.
He was 22, a volunteer and is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery