SHOVELTON, James Chadder
| Service Number: | VX80871 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Field Regiment |
| Born: | Euroa, Victoria, Australia, 26 July 1910 |
| Home Town: | Euroa, Strathbogie, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Euroa Higher Elementary School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Banker |
| Died: | dementia, Perth Western Australia, 1999 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 20 Jul 1942: | Enlisted VX80871, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment | |
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| 18 Dec 1945: | Discharged VX80871, 2nd/3rd Field Regiment |
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Prior to the war, Chad worked at the Bank of Australasia, Shepparton for five and a half years. In 1934, he was transferred to Melbourne to open a branch of the bank at 161 Flinders Lane.
Chad served in the Citizen Military Forces from 6 Nov 1941 through to 20 July 1942 when he was seconded to the 2/3rd Australian Field Regiment, AIF. He rose to the rank of Captain. He served in New Guinea from 5 Nov 1944 through to 10 Apr 1945. He returned to New Guinea on 16 June 1945 and then returned to the mainland for demobilisation in late November 1945.
He left from Townsville on the Katoomba and disembarked at Aitape. It is not clear that he saw action with the Japanese. According to Jack, he was told that Chad’s nickname in the Army was the Great Dane. Some wag in deference to the nickname, left a large bone outside his tent one night, which Chad did not find amusing.
Chad returned to the bank after the war which had been renamed to the ANZ bank. In 1953 he was sent to Darwin and opened the first ANZ branch in the Territory in Smith Street. Following that assignment, he was appointed the ANZ WA State Manager.
Chad married Grace Gibson in 1942 and they had two daughters – Judith (1943) and Pamela (1950).
He received an Order of Australia in 1985 for his work for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.
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