SHUMACK, Edwin Robert
| Service Number: | N192344 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 October 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, 23 December 1921 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Dubbo Technical College, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Apprentice Sheetmetal Worker |
| Died: | Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, 3 August 2008, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
East Ballina Cemetery, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 14 Oct 1941: | Enlisted N192344 | |
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| Date unknown: | Discharged N192344 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Edwin Robert Shumack (Service No:N192344) served in the ACMF (Part Time Duty) with 19th Battalion VDC from 14 October 1941 to 3 September 1943. Older brother Ken served in the RAAF in WWII.
Ed was born in Dubbo, New South Wales in 1921, fifth of seven children of Robert (Bob) Aubrey Shumack (b1877 in Bathurst, New South Wales) and Margaret (Maggie) Jane McCulloch (b1888 in Tumut, New South Wales). Bob was a Farmer at Narromine via Castlereagh, and he and Maggie married in 1910 in Tumut. The couple settled at Mogriguy via Castlereagh, where they raised their family and Bob was a Farmer - and served as Secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Association.
Ed was an Apprentice Sheetmetal Worker with the NSW Government Railways in 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF. Following his Discharge, he was a Sheetmetal Worker in Sydney in 1947 when he married Ruth Valerie Christensen (b1920 in Ballina, New South Wales). Ed and Ruth lived in Sydney, where Ed was a Sheetmetal Worker, before settling in Bathurst in the early 1950s. Ed was a Foreman in Bathurst until retirement, and died in 2008. Ruth died in 1995.
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