Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
4922 Acting Corporal (A/Cpl) George Thomson Shields, 14th Battalion. Broadmeadows, c 13 March 1916
Shields G T Pte 4922 George Thomson 14 Inf Bn 19 Butcher Single C of E
Address: Essendon, Combermere St, 24
Next of Kin: Shields, S, father, 24 Combermere St, Essendon
Enlisted: 28 Aug 1915
Embarked: A68 Anchises 14 Mar 1916
Australian Red Cross Society
Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau.
Missing 11.4.17 [Captured Reincourt - B2455]
Prisoner of War - interned Dulmen Cert by information from Man by Post Card dated 28.5.17
I saw him and slept alongside him right up to May 15th 1917 Witness SGT F W Dalitz 14th Battn, Harefield
Transferred Coy 1 Zerbst. Extract from Post-Card from Man dated 16.7.17
Interned Zerbst. "Am in good health and receiving grocery parcels regularly." Extract from post-card received from man dated 15.10.17
Interned Zerbst. "This leaves me well". Cert. by extract from Post card received from man dated 21.1.18
Interned Zerbst "This leaves me in the best of health and thanking you earnestly for the parcels I receive regularly." Cert by extract from Post Card received from man dated 18.3.18 also letter dated 15.4.18
Repatriated Prisoner of War - arrived Hull 2-1-19.
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Later promoted to Corporal, Sheilds was posted as missing in action. It was subsequently determined that he had been captured at Reincourt and was being held in Germany as a prisoner of war. Following the Armistice he was repatriated to England and returned to Australia on 2 March 1919.
War Service Commemorated
Essendon Town Hall R-Y (G F)
St James Anglican Church
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Missing
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