SHERINGHAM, John Alfred
| Service Number: | NG2109 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia, 23 October 1904 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Mining Engineer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 17 June 1975, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 22 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NG2109 | |
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| 26 Oct 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NG2109 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal John Alfred Sheringham (Service No:NG2109) served in the Militia with 35th Battalion (1922 - 1924) before enlisting in the Militia (Service No:9102) as a Private on 14 February 1941 with New Guinea Volunteer Refles (NGVR). Corporal Sheringham then served with NGVR from 22 January 1942 to 26 October 1942. The NGVR was raised as a unit of the Militia in 1939, and from 1942 were activated for full time service monitoring the activity of the Japanese in New Guinea and helping rescue survivors from Lark Force in Rabaul (AWM).
John was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1904, eldest of two children of John (Jack) Thomas Sheringham (b1884 in Sydney, New South Wales) and Kathleen (Lena/Sherry) Moroney (b1887 in Gosford, New South Wales). Jack(a Labourer) and Lena married in 1904 in Sydney, where they settled and raised their family and Jack worked as a Labourer and as a Tramways Employee. In 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF, Jack was a Tramways Pitman, and following his Discharge returned to Sydney and worked with the Tramways as an Electrical Mechanic. Jack and Lena separated in the late 1920s - Lena later settled in Melbourne. Jack lived with his mother in Sydney and worked as an Electrical Mechanic.
John started work as a Draftsman in Sydney, where in 1926 he married Kathleen O'Reilly (b1905 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania). The couple settled in Sydney, where they raised their family. John worked in New Guinea in the 1930s as a Mining Engineer, and from 1943 to 1946 worked in Sydney. At the end of WWII, John worked again in New Guinea as a Mining Engineer until the 1960s, when he settled in Sydney with his family. John died in 1975 and Kathleen in 1978.