Brian Richards SHUTTLEWORTH MID

SHUTTLEWORTH, Brian Richards

    Service Numbers: SX20846, S62871, SX30846
    Enlisted: 13 August 1942
    Last Rank: Captain
    Last Unit: 2nd AIF Light Aid Detachments
    Born: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia , 22 October 1910
    Home Town: Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales
    Schooling: Bourke Ward & Technical College, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Engineer / Maintenance Foreman
    Died: Injuries (killed by falling tree), New Britain, Pacific Islands, 15 February 1945, aged 34 years
    Cemetery: Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
    (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot B, Row B, Grave 14. Personal Inscription ~ "ALL YOU HAD HOPED FOR, ALL YOU HAD YOU GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND".
    Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, North Broken Hill Ltd. Staff Honour Roll WW2
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    World War 2 Service

    13 Aug 1942: Enlisted Puckapunyal, VIC
    13 Aug 1942: Involvement Captain, SX20846
    13 Aug 1942: Involvement Captain, S62871
    13 Aug 1942: Enlisted SX20846
    15 Feb 1945: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, SX30846, 2nd AIF Light Aid Detachments, 231 Light Aid Detachment
    16 Nov 1945: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, New Britain, Distinguished Service in South West Pacific Area.
    Date unknown: Involvement

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Brian Richards SHUTTLEWORTH was born in Broken Hill in NSW on 22nd October, 1910

    His parents were Harold Charles SHUTTLEWORTH & Mignonette Emily Agnes RICHARDS who married in  Sydney in 1902

    He married Edna Gladys WHITE in the Wesley Chapel in Sydney on 25th October, 1941

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