SHIELS, Norman Rolf
| Service Number: | 5617 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Tunnelling Companies |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, January 1897 |
| Home Town: | Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 14 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Menin Road South Military Cemetery Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 5 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Minmi Roll of Honour, Minmi St Andrew's Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5617, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5617, Tunnelling Companies, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5617, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 14 Sep 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 5617, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5617 awm_unit: 1st Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-09-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen Soldier of The Great War memorialised at Mimi Cemetery, N.S.W.
On the 14th September 1917, Sapper Norman Rolf Shiels, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-5617), wheeler from opposite Police Station, Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales, was Killed in Action at Hill 60, Ieper (Ypres) Messines, Belgium or Hellfire Corner, age 20 years 9 months. Cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Hobart, Tasmania? Jan? 1897? to Gilbert Archibald (died 9.1.1922, Minmi, N.S.W., age 66, buried at Right Hand Side, Section 16, Plot 013), from Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales, and Jessie Shiels (died 10.2.1933, Cessnock, N.S.W., age?, name not inscribed on headstone, sleeping at Right Hand Side, Section 16, Plot 013), from Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales.
Norm enlisted on the 2nd May 1916 with the Tunnelling Companies, October 1916, Reinforcements, age 19 years 4 months, at Minmi, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 25th October 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 28.12.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Folkestone, England 28.1.1917.
Taken on Strength 1st Australian Tunnelling Company 3.3.1917.
Admitted to hospital 12.3.1917 (scabies).
Norm is resting at Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot II Row C Grave 5.
Place of Association - Minmi, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Shiels's name has been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour Minmi St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour and the Star of Minmi Lodge, No. 1606, G.U.O.O.F.
I have placed poppies at the Shiels memorialised gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son Norm for God, King & Country. Right Hand Side, Section 16, Plot 013.
Many thanks to Pat Healion, Jeanette Park and Ros Cheetham for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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