Name
Edward Alfred Shaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/10/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 A and 10 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishops Stortford memorials
Pre War
Edward was the eldest son of the Right Rev. Edward Domett Shaw, Lord Bishop of Buckingham D.D. and his wife Agnes (née Gilbey). He was born in Bishops Stortford and educated at Cothill School Marlborough, and Brasenose College, Oxford.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in September 1914, promoted Lieut. in February 1915 and Captain in the October.
He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from July 1915 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Col. E. D. White wrote:
"He was so popular with all, officers and men that he will indeed be a heavy loss to the battalion. A few days after the fighting of Sept. 3 our Divisional General was watching my regiment pass, and, seeing your son, said: 'I am so glad to see Shaw is all right, he is such a fine fellow.' This shows you that his value was appreciated beyond our own battalion."
And Major Osborne:
"He was the bravest man I ever met; this is not a meaningless platitude, your son was absolutely fearless; I never met his equal; to quote an instance, he was telling me within two hours of his death that after the effect of the German fire on his trench in the morning he had an absolute disregard and contempt for the German shelling in the future. He really did not know what danger meant."
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
