SHERMAN, Archibald
| Service Number: | VX12576 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 April 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 20 February 1910 |
| Home Town: | Moulamein, Wakool, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor and Tractor Driver |
| Died: | Glenthompson, Victoria, Australia, 18 April 1968, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 19 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX12576 | |
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| 29 Dec 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX12576, embarked Melbourne for Palestine on board HMT Mauritania | |
| 1 Mar 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX12576, embarked Suez for Batavia on board SS Orcades | |
| 29 Apr 1942: | Imprisoned | |
| 17 Oct 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX12576, embarked Singapore for Melbourne on board Manunda | |
| 14 Feb 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX12576 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Archibald Sherman (Service No:VX1276) enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 19 April 1940 - graded Driver- and was a Private attached to 1 Australian Corps Petrol Park when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Palestine on 29 December 1940 on board HMT Mauritania. Promoted to Lance Corporal on 26 March 1941, he was attached to 105 General Transport Coy when he embarked from Suez for Batavia on 1 March 1942 on board SS Orcades, and was Reported as Missing in Java on 29 April 1942. Lance Corporal Sherman was confirmed as a PoW (No:J7889) of the Japanese on 25 August 1943 - held in Thailand. On 1 September 1945, his father was informed that 'a wireless broadcast from Saigon states (he is) in Saigon Camp' (NAA). On 9 October 1945 Lance Corporal Sherman was recovered from the Japanese at Changi, embarking from Singapore for Melbourne on board the Manunda on 17 October 1945. On arrival in Melbourne, Lance Corporal Sherman was hospitalised until his Discharge on 14 February 1946.
Archie was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1910, third of four children of William (Bill) James Sherman (b1873 in Mansfield, Victoria) and his first wife Emma Alice Hallows (b1878 in Melbourne, Victoria). Bill (a Labourer) and Emma married in 1910 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family. Emily died in 1915, and Bill remarried, having another three children. Bill and his second wife moved with their family to NSW, where Bill worked in Moulamein as a Labourer.
Archie worked in Moulamein NSW as a Labourer and Motor and Tractor Driver before enlisting in the AIF. Following his Discharge, in 1946 in Melbourne he married Joan Lilian Parks (b1919 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Joan served in WWII in the AWAS (Bombardier; Service No:VF388669). Archie and Joan settled in Stratford, where Archie worked as a Station Hand before moving to Willaura via Mortlake in 1949, where Archie was a Farmer, and from there to Penshurst, where he was a Grazier until his death in 1968. Joan died in 2020.
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