Tasman (Tas) SHELLEY

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SHELLEY, Tasman

Service Number:	TX16128
Enlisted:	2 August 1944
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 19 September 1924
Home Town:	Scottsdale, Dorset, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Suffolk Park, New South Wales, Australia, 14 August 2009, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
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World War 2 Service

2 Aug 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX16128, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF
23 Oct 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, TX16128, 9 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Tasman Shelley (Service Nos:TX16128/T102939) served in the Australian Army from 2 August 1944. Private Shelley was attached to 9 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged on 23 October 1946.

Born in 1924 in Launceston Tasmania, Ronald (Tas) Tasman was the fifth of seven children of John Prince Shelley (b1893 at Moorina, Tasmania) and Mary Burke (b1897 at Turner's Marsh, Tasmania). John (a Labourer) and Mary married in 1915 in Launceston, Tasmania - John was the son of an Anglican Minister and Mary was from a strict Catholic family who refused to speak to her for a number of years following her marriage. John and Mary lived in Waratah, Ringarooma, Winnaleah, Launceston and Scottsdale where they raised their family and John was a Labourer.

Tas worked as a Labourer prior to his Service in WWII and in 1946 went on a working holiday with his mother and sisters fruit picking in the Huon Valley. In 1949 in Launceston, Tasmania Tas married Aline (Poppy) Rose Smith (b1928 in Launceston, Tasmania) - Poppy was a Weaver and Tas a Tram Conductor. Following their Divorce, Tas remarried in the early 1970's to Shirley Janice - they lived in Evandale where Tas was a Bus Driver. Tas died in 2009.

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