| Regimental number | 4884 |
| Place of birth | Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Barolin, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 21 |
| Height | 5' 8" |
| Weight | 158 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs B Shearin, Barolin, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 9th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/4 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A73 Commonwealth on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | 4593 |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 9th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll) | NR incorrectly gives date of death as 4 October 1917. |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 57 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Note Date of Death |
| Family/military connections | Brother: 3113 Pte Ambrose Dominick SHEARIN, 42nd Bn, returned to Australia, 6 June 1918. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Transferred from 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, Tel el Kebir, to 4th Australian Hospital, Abbassia, 24 May 1916 (mumps); transferred to England and admitted to 3rd Training Bn Brigade Hospital, 9 July 1916. Marched out to 3rd Training Bn, 18 July 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 31 July 1916; taken on strength, 9th Bn, 13 August 1916. Admitted to 5th Australian Field Ambulance, 15 November 1916 (sore feet); discharged to duty, 21 November 1916; rejoined Bn, 22 November 1916. Admitted to 36th Casualty Clearing Station, 1 December 1916 (sore feet); transferred by Ambulance Train No 36, 1 December 1916, and admitted to 8th General Hospital, Rouen, 3 December 1916; to 2nd Convalescent Depot, 8 December 1916; to 1st Australian Division Base Depot, Etaples, 12 December 1916; rejoined Bn, 7 January 1917. On leave to United Kingdom, 13 September 1917; rejoined unit in Belgium from leave, 25 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 7 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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