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Bacchus Marsh
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Lieutenant William Francis Waugh Shields

Service No.:
Unit:
9th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI)
attached to the 5th KSLI - British Army
Tree No.:
N233
Planted by:
Miss Dot Simpson
Image of plaque on tree N233 for William Shields
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KIA

William was born in Bacchus Marsh, VIC in 1892 to Rev. William Henry Shields and Margaret Louisa Sinclair.

Rev. Shields was temporarily filling the position of Rev. Williams(1) and returned, with his family, to England in 1894(2). They did return to Australia but were resident in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England when William jnr. entered Ellesmere College in 1905, aged 12.

William enlisted in the Officer Training Corps and, following the outbreak of war received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant on the same day as he received his Degree - aged 22. He was gazetted as a Lieutenant in December and attached to the 5th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry(1) before landing in France in May 1915.

William was killed in action on the 25th of September 1915.

He is listed on the Bacchus Marsh & District Roll of Honour. He is also remembered at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and the Keble College Roll of Honour.

Notes

  1. The Bacchus Marsh Express 13 Nov 1915
  2. The Bacchus Marsh Express 17 Feb 1894

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Last updated by lee, Tue, 18 May 2021 11:02:37