Grave Site: II.A.1 Isolated Burial

A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

Private Lambert Laverne Shoup was born in Ohio in 1911 and grew up in Michigan.  He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces at the start of World War 2.  He served with the Essex Scottish Regiment, a Canadian unit best known for participating in the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942, which left the Regiment almost completely decimated. Shoup was most likely taken prisoner and died in captivity in the present day Czech Republic in 1945.

Lambert Shoup’s brother, 2^nd Lieutenant Clyde Shoup, a pilot in the 386^th Squadron, 365th Fighter Group, 9^th Air Force was killed while piloting his P-47 on October 7, 1944 over Germany.  He is buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial in the Netherlands (Grave: Plot K  Row 15  Grave 22).

From the CWGC Files:

PRIVATE LAMBERT LAVERNE SHOUP

Service Number: A/23253

Regiment & Unit/Ship: Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death: 13 February 1945

Age 34 years old

Additional Info:

Son of Carl and Edith Lilly Shoup; husband of Esther Shoup, of Temperance, Michigan, U.S.A.

Personal Inscription:  BELOVED HUSBAND OF ESTHER BURMEISTER SHOUP

About the cemetery from the CWGC:

Prague War Cemetery was constructed by the Czechoslovak Government. It contains 256 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 34 of which are unidentified. The graves were brought into the cemetery from 73 small cemeteries scattered all over the Czech Republic. Many of those buried here died as Prisoners of War. 

A/23252 PRIVATE

l..L. SHOUP

(of U.S.A)

THE ESSEX SCOTTISH REGIMENT

13 FEBRUARY 1934. AGE 34

BELOVED HUSBAND OF ESTHER BURMEISTER SHOUP