SHIELDS, Ernest John Isadore
| Service Number: | 1914 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Jerilderie, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Stroke, 23 November 1966, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 29 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1914, 37th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 1914, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 16 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 1914, 37th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne | |
| 5 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, Gassed & suffering from bronchitis | |
| 4 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1914, 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Born in NSW in May 1893, the son of Robert John Victor 'Bob' Shields and Annie Kindlen.
He was sent to France on the 22/11/1916 and was reported for disobeying a lawful order to get out of bed to undertake fatigue duty on the 16/1/1917: docked 14 days pay. Gassed on the 5/6/1917.
Also in 1917, whilst in hospital Shields went AWL for 24 hours on the 10/11/1917 and was docked 4 days pay. Returned to France a week later on 16/11/1917.
On 22/11/1917, six days after his arrival in France, he was wounded in action, left thigh. He was wounded again on 4/6/1918, and invalided out on the 9/6/1918 being transferred to the 5th Battalion AIF on the 8/10/1918.
He was returned to Australia six months later on 30/4/1919.
He received the following service medals - British War Medal & Victory Medal.
He also received the Silver War Badge (number A89935) and Imperial issue for Service Rendered to King and Empire.
He married Annie Gina Francis Geise in 1924 in Victoria.
Post WW1 he joined the police force (in 1923), the year of the police strike. He was a bit old to get in, however being a returned soldier, Nicholson, who was Commissioner of Police at the time was allowing older men to enlist in the Victoria Police.
He died on Derby Day, November 23rd 1966. Stroke.
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