SHAW, Sydney George
| Service Number: | NX29579 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 1 October 1915 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Textile worker |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 August 1983, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, QLD Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX29579 | |
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| 27 Dec 1940: | Embarked 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, from Sydney; disembarked Ishmalia, Egypt on 30 Jan 1941 | |
| 11 Jul 1942: | Imprisoned missing in action; officially reported POW 27 Aug 1942; interned Camps 57 and 106; recovered from Western Europe to UK in May 1945 | |
| 30 May 1945: | Embarked from Liverpool, England; disembarked in Sydney, Australia on 7 Jul 1945; evacuated to convalescent depot on 30 Jul 1945 | |
| 3 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, at own request on compassionate grounds |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Sydney, known as Syd, was the only surviving son of George and Dorothy CORPS. Four of his siblings died in infancy. A younger sister, Marjorie Vera, survived. His mother died in December 1924 at age 35.
He was adopted by his maternal aunt, Vera SHAW, and her husband, Donald. Syd's NSW birth is registered under both CORPS and SHAW (Glebe 44917/1915).
Syd married Maisie Dorothy Gladys WRIGHT, known as Dorothy, on 24 February 1940 in Marrickville, NSW, and enlisted only three months later.
He was a POW on board the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio when it was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Syd was one of 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident.
Maisie remarried in 1948 in Marrickville. Syd died in 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland.
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