Ronald Shaw (1920 - 9 August 1945) was a corporal in the Royal Air Force. He is noted for being the first prisoner of war to be listed at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims and the second non-Japanese (the first being a Chinese civilian).
He was captured when his plane was shot down by Japanese forces near Java, and was then sent to a prisoner camp in Nagasaki, where, on 9 August 1945, he was killed when an Atomic Bomb hit the city.
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| Name | Shaw, Ronald |
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| Date of birth | 1920 |
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| Date of death | 9 August 1945 |
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“The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)