Edward SHEARS

SHEARS, Edward

Service Number: VX20994
Enlisted: 10 June 1940
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE
Born: London, England, 22 December 1899
Home Town: Kensington, Melbourne, Victoria
Occupation: Store and Silo Hand
Died: Cardiac Failure, Laverton, Victoria, Australia, 20 May 1962, aged 62 years
Cemetery: Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
Interned Williamstown Cemetery’s Trust as 22 May 1962
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

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World War 2 Service

10 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX20994
15 Jul 1940: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Enlisted Town Hall Melbourne allocated to 2/10th Field Coy RAE at Seymour Camp Victoria
18 Feb 1941: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, VX20994, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Malaya/Singapore, Landed Singapore Departed Australia 2nd February 1941
16 Mar 1942: Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Captured in the field 16 March 1942. Confirmed by Red Cross Cable as POW on 27 May 1943
5 Sep 1945: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Member recovered from Japanese POW at Changi by 2nd PW Recovery Group AMF
15 Sep 1945: Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, VX20994, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Embarked Singapore Transport Oranje for Australia
30 Sep 1945: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, 115 Australian General Hospital, Admitted Hospital Berri Berri and Odema
20 Jan 1946: Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Reception Camp, Admitted 20th AGH Watsonia POW Wing for treatment and convalescence
18 Sep 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sapper, VX20994, 2nd/10th Field Company / Squadron RAE, Discharged 3MD medically unfit congestive cardiac failure. Medical Class D

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