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SHELDON, Charles Richard
Personal Details
Service Number: | NX130227 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | 'M' Special Unit |
Born: | Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia, 29 November 1891 |
Home Town: | Rose Bay, Woollahra, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Murdered, Ambon, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 15 June 1943, aged 51 years |
Cemetery: |
Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia 7. A. 14. |
Memorials: | Australian Commando Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Captain, NX130227, 'M' Special Unit | |
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Date unknown: | Enlisted NX130227, Z Special Unit |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Edward Sheldon and Elizabeth Sheldon
Husband of Elizabeth Lascelles Hamilton Sana Sheldon of Rose Bay, NSW
Australian Infantry - attached to "M" Special Unit
Captured on Aru Island and sent to Ambon where he was eventually executed by the Japanese Secret Police