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
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.
Essendon Town Hall R-Y (G F)
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Missing