Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC SHAKESPEARE, GEORGE EDWARD Rank: Private Service No: 3533768 Regiment/Service: 7th Bn. Cheshire Regiment Date of Death: 16/07/1943 Age: 25 Cemetery: HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 5. E. 9. Additional Information: Son of Edward and Lily Asenath Shakespeare; husband of Mary Shakespeare, of Bolton Lancashire Personal Inscription: DEEP IN OUR HEARTS A MEMORY IS KEPT OF ONE WE LOVED AND WILL NEVER FORGET
7th Cheshires were MG Bn to 5th Div. http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/ They'd have been in Sicily on that date so assume he was wounded & evacuated to hospital. Or was ill & never went.