Arthur Ernest SHIERS

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SHIERS, Arthur Ernest

Service Number:	23495
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born:	Southwark, SA, 24 May 1921
Home Town:	Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia
Schooling:	Henley Beach Public School
Occupation:	Employee General Motors Holdens
Died:	Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" At Sea
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birkenhead HMAS Sydney (II) D48 Memorial, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Nailsworth Primary School WW2 Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea

World War 2 Service

Date unknown:	Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 23495, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Shiers, of Adelaide, South Australia.

Able Seaman Arthur Ernest Shiers, 21, was a son of Mr. Alfred Shiers. of Kent Town, and the late Mrs. Shiers. He joined the navy shortly after the outbreak of war and had been in the Sydney in all her engagements in the Mediterranean. Educated at the Henley Beach Public School, A.B. Shiers later worked on a farm at Yundi and was employed at General Motors Holden's when he enlisted. One of his three brothers. William is in the R.A.A.F.

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