Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- Town
- Didcot
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 68315
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Current location
All Saints Church
Lydalls Road
Didcot
South Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
OX11 7ER
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 51972 90504
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Addition to gravestone.
- Inscription
- TREASURED MEMORIES OF OUR ONLY SON ERIC ARTHUR HARRY SHELLY WHO DIED JULY 12, 1945 WHILE A PRISONER OF WAR AT KUCHING BORNEO AGED 29. (Line breaks not known.)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Relationships, forename, surname, date of death, place of death, manner of death, age of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Gravestone
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Gravestone
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/173556/SHELLEY, ERIC ARTHUR HARRY
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