Ivy Jessie SHUMACK

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SHUMACK, Ivy Jessie

Service Number:	93092
Enlisted:	21 February 1942
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	North Sydney, New South Wales, 17 October 1913
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Business College, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk/Stenographer
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 March 1988, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

21 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 93092
16 Oct 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 93092

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Flight Sergeant Ivy Jessie Shumack (Service No:93092) enlisted in the WAAAF (maiden name Burdon) on 21 February 1942 at No 2 Recruiting Centre Sydney as an Aircraftwoman I - mustered as Clerk General, re mustered as Medical Charter. Flight Sergeant Shumack was attached to 3 Communications Unit at Discharge on 16 October 1945. Husband Ken (Service No:21878) also served in the RAAF.

Ivy was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1913, only child of Phillip Sydney Burdon (b1886 in Sydney, New South Wales) and Florence Daisy Horsey (b1889 in Sydney, New South Wales). Phillip and Florence married in 1913 in Sydney, where they settled and raised their family and Phillip worked as an Electrician.

Ivy worked in Sydney as a Clerk/Stenographer, originally with Felt & Textiles Aust Ltd, and was with the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission in 1942 when she enlisted in the WAAAF. Ivy was based in Melbourne in 1943 when she married Kenneth (Ken) William Shumack (b1911 in Dubbo, New South Wales) - Ken was serving in the RAAF. Following Discharge, Ivy and Ken settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Ken was a Labourer and Timber Worker before joining the Public Service in 1957 as a Lineman with the Postmaster General's Department. Ivy died in 1988 and Ken in 1996.

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