William Schakow

Sapper William Foster Schakow was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 5 December 1881, in South Shields, the son of German-born William and Alice Ann Schakow, of Tynemouth. Schakow, who before the war was a painter, enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as an ordinary seaman on 22 October 1915. A month later, on the 5th, he transferred to the Royal Marine Divisional Engineers as a sapper.Jack Marshall, comp.. Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
Schakow arrived in Mudros as a draft for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 26 February 1916. He transferred to the Royal Engineers on 31 January 1917. While serving with the Royal Naval Division, attached from the 171st Company, Schakow died on the Western Front on 29 April 1918. He had married, in 1901, to Jane Oswald.
He is buried in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, Belgium.
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== References ==
*Ancestry.co.uk
*Schakow, W, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
Category:1881 births
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Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
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