261057 Shaw British Army 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment For some months I have been searching for information on a British soldier, named Thjou, Shaw or something like that. I have a photo of him and with the signs on his uniform he has to be a member of the 49th Infantry Division, which badge is over the Sphynx which was the badge of the Essex regiment.
The 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment were at Nijmegen in the Netherlands (my birth and living place) on 6 January till May 1945. In the period a German V1-flying bomb attacked on 18th of February 1945 Nijmegen in the neighborhood of a house where British soldiers were sleeping. Thjou or Shaw was one of them and he helped the family by cleaning up the house, which was damaged by the V1 attack. He should be a cobbler and was around 28 years old in February 1945.
Now I have connected several persons to get more information about him and his relatives, so far without result. Maybe you can help me with that. It should be very nice because I'm writing a small book with stories of people who lived on the place of the V1-attack and I will write something about the English soldiers who were sleeping in the house of Dutch inhabitants. Hopefully you can help me with this.
In 2010 it was my father, then 80 years old (he died 6 years ago) who realized a monument for the 4 citizens which died and the many wounded people which houses were destroyed. The old people which I have spoken are all very positive about the British soldiers which give them some meat (corned beef) and chocolate in the time that food was very little available. Yearly, I'm organizing now rememberances and the primary school is involved with that. In 2010 we realised a first small book and now I have much new stories, so I will make a second little book. See this link for the first book.
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