Regimental number | 666 |
Place of birth | South Yarra, Victoria |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Grocer |
Address | 166 The Parade, Ascot Vale, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 18 |
Height | 5' 4.5" |
Weight | 105 lbs |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs C Sheldrick, 166 The Parade, Ascot Vale, Victoria |
Previous military service | Served for 4 years in the Senior Cadets; 6 months in the Citizen Military Forces. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 38th Battalion, B Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/55/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 38th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 | 130 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John and Charlotte SHELDRICK, 45 Francis Street, Ascot Vale, Victoria |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Melbourne, 20 June 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 10 August 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 22 November 1916. Admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance, 2 March 1917 (influenza); to Divisional rest Station, 4 March 1917; discharged to duty, 8 March 1917; rejoined unit, 11 March 1917. Promoted Temporary Corporal, 20 June 1917; Corporal, 20 June 1917. Reported missing in action, 13 October 1917; subsequently confirmed killed in action. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |