Private Robert Garland Coryn Shaw
- Rank
- Private
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1916 Western Front
- Service number
- 1167
- Unit
- 28 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Pozieres, France
- Date of death
- 29 July 1916
- Age
- 19
- Plaque number
- MW62A
- Co-located plaques
- MW62 - PTE John Anderson
- Dedicated by
- His family on 24 June 2006
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Private Robert Garland Coryn Shaw of 28 Battalion, Garland as he preferred to be known, was born in Kalgoorlie in July 1898, the eldest son of Robert and Eleanor Shaw.
He attended schools in Kalgoorlie and left home to complete his education at Guildford Grammar School as a boarder.
He served in 84 Battalion senior cadets from 1913 to 1915. He returned home for a short period of time and was a cadet journalist with the Kalgoorlie Miner.
Garland enlisted in May 1915 at Boulder, went to Blackboy Hill for training and in June embarked on SS Ascanius for Egypt and Gallipoli.
Later he went to a hospital ship and Malta with influenza and then scarlet fever.
Garland arrived at Marseilles in March 1916 and was involved in heavy fighting in France.
This extract is from correspondence received by his parents from a chaplain, Archdeacon E.M. Collick:
'He was so bent on going to the front and doing his bit for King and country ... A true, brave, soldier lad devoted to his duty ... He died as he did, freely giving his life in the cause of justice and right in the empire's service ... He was a hero of whom your family can always be proud.'
Private Robert Garland Coryn Shaw, service number 1167, was killed in action at Pozieres on 29 July 1916. He was 19.