SHAW, Oliver Robert
| Service Number: | 638 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bowral, New South Wales, Australia, 2 March 1882 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Ironworker |
| Died: | Suicide, Centennial Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 27 November 1929, aged 47 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-28. 138. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 638, 9th Machine Gun Company | |
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| 21 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 638, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne | |
| 21 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 638, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 638, 33rd Infantry Battalion, GSW to leg | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 638, 33rd Infantry Battalion, The Battle of Amiens, GSW arm | |
| 19 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 638, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The tragic story of a Forgotten Digger of The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
92 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 29th November 1929, Private Oliver Robert Shaw, also known as Patsy, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-638), ironworker and stove fitter (Fletcher’s Stove Works, Woollahra, N.S.W.), from Winship Street, Hamilton West, New South Wales and Adamstown, N.S.W. and Underwood Street, Paddington, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 47. ANGLICAN 1-28. 138.
Born at Bowral, New South Wales on the 2nd March 1882 to Robert Henry and Sarah M Shaw nee Simpson (also sleeping here) of Brunker Road, Hamilton West, N.S.W. and 93 Gosford Road, Adamstown, N.S.W., Patsy enlisted December 1916 with the 9th Australian Machine Gun Company at Sydney, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 8.4.1918 (septic hand).
Wounded in action - 23.5.1918 (GSW leg), 8.8.1918 (GSW arm).
Patsy returned home August 1919, being discharged on the 19th September 1919.
Mr. Shaw’s name has NOT been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial or the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor or the Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll or any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Apparently, there was a coroner’s inquest held on the 10th December 1929, (the verdict was cyanide poisoning willfully self-administered) but not located on Trove.
Mr. Shaw’s name has not been inscribed on the gravesite headstone plaque with mother Sarah, and I am unable to place a wooden cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Patsy’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Many thanks to the wonderful Michelle Foster for the extensive family history.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite of this Forgotten Digger to restore Honour and Dignity to Oliver.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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