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Shaw-V-R-W-Cpl-10672

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 5 years, 11 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Corporal Victor Roy Willoughby Shaw, 3rd Divisional Signals Company, circa

May 1916.  http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/DAOD1710

 

Shaw V R W     Cpl    10672    Victor Roy Willoughby              3 Div Sig Co    19    Telephone mechanic    Single    Bap       

Address:    Moonee Ponds, Vine St, 143   

Next of Kin:    Shaw, John father, 143 Vine St, Moonee Ponds   

Enlisted:    27 Jan 1916      

Embarked:     A11 Ascanius 25 May 1916 

Prior service:    9th Field Engineers

Awards:  MSM

 

 

Scoutmaster V. R. W. Shaw, of 1st Essendon Baptist Boy Scouts (late Corporal of 9th Field Engineers), has enlisted and gone into camp, 3rd Divisional Signal Company of Engineers, Broadmeadows.

 

KILLED. (1916, March 16). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved January 27, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74592270

 

DISTINCTION GAINED
Corporal V. R. W. Shaw has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in recognition
of valuable services, rendered with the armies in France. Corporal Shaw is a motor dis-
patch rider attached to Headquarters Section 3rd Divisional Co. of Signal Engineers,
and is the eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. Shaw, Kyabram, formerly of Moonee Ponds.

DISTINCTION GAINED (1919, April 1). The Herald

(Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 6.  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243478745

 

Shaw returned to Australia on 21 June 1919. He served in the Second World War as a Captain with 6 Corps of Signals.

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall R-Y

Ascot Vale State School  (R)

Essendon Baptist Church (R W)

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours                                                       

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