SHAW, Clarence Henry
| Service Number: | NX95088 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery |
| Born: | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia , 12 January 1904 |
| Home Town: | Bondi, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shop Manager |
| Died: | Umina, New South Wales, Australia , 4 September 1985, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Palmdale Lawn Cemetery & Memorial Park, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX95088 | |
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| 17 Dec 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX95088, 23rd Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board the Duntroon | |
| 18 Jun 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Gunner, NX95088, 23rd Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville | |
| 13 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX95088 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Second eldest of the four brothers who served in WWII (Les, Clarrie, Merv and Jack), Private Clarence Henry Shaw (Service No:NX95088) enlisted in the AIF on 15 April 1942 with General Details Depot - graded F/C Operator. Gunner Shaw was attached to 23rd Heavy Anti Aircraft (Ack Ack) Battery on 17 December 1942 when he embarked with his Unit from Townsville for Port Moresby on board the Duntroon. Gunner Shaw was with 23rd Heavy Artillery Battery in New Guinea when his older brother Les (Service No:NX94809, also with 23rd Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery) was killed on 1 March 1944. Gunner Shaw embarked from Port Moresby for Townsville on 18 June 1944, and in March 1945 transferred to 5 Base Ordnance Depot (BOD). Gunner Shaw was attached to 23rd Anti Aircraft Battery at Discharge on 13 November 1945.
Clarrie was born in Lithgow, New South Wales in 1904, third of eight children of Robert Thomas Shaw (b1877 at Wattle Flat, Bathurst, New South Wales) and Maude Mary Jane Ingram (b1883 in Glenn Innes, New South Wales). Robert and Maude married in 1900 in Bathurst, and lived there, and in Lithgow and Helensburg via Woolongong before settling in Sydney in 1918. Robert worked as a Labourer.
Clarrie started work in Bondi as a Salesman, and in 1937 in Sydney married his first wife Doreen Isabel Coulson (b1909 in Hay, New South Wales). Clarrie and Doreen settled in Bondi, where they raised their family and Clarrie was a Salesman and, in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army, a Shop Manager. Following his Discharge from the Army, Clarrie and Doreen lived in Sydney, where Clarrie worked as a Salesman. Doreen died in 1954, and in 1955 in Sydney, Clarrie remarried to Doreen Margaret Quinlan (b1921 in Holbrook via Albury, New South Wales) - Doreen worked in Sydney as a Packer and a Machinist. Clarrie and Doreen lived in Sydney before retiring to Umina on the Central Coast, where Clarrie died in 1985. Doreen died in 2009.
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