SHALLBERG, John Reginald
| Service Number: | 357 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, 17 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Leongatha, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at Sea |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 357, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 357, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 357, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 28 Apr 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 8th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Sergeant John Reginald Shallberg was 21 years of age and the younger son of the Rev John Henry Shallberg, of Camberwell Victoria. He was born in Shepparton, Victoria but was educated at Donald and Malvern in Victoria. At the time of enlisting, he was in the Bank of Australasia at Leongatha, but was previously stationed at Bright for two years. Immediately after the outbreak of war he went into camp at Broadmeadows, where he was made Lance Corporal of “C” Company in the 8th Infantry Battalion. On the way to Egypt, he was made Corporal and after the first engagement at Gallipoli was promoted Sergeant. Three days before the Lone Pine battle he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. The official notice of death stated that the Sergeant Shallberg received a gunshot wound in the head on 7 August 1915 and died the same day aboard the hospital ship Dunluce Castle. His Lieutenant wrote, “as a soldier he had all the necessary qualifications, which brought him a commission. As a friend and comrade he never knew a nasty thought: himself and his actions were a model his men were told to look up to.”
Mentioned in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.
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