| [Index] |
| Stanley Alexander SHUMACK (1914 - 1943) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Stanley Alexander SHUMACK (1914 - 1943) | Alexander SHUMACK (1882 - 1956) | Peter (Big Pete) SHUMACK (1844 - 1912) | John SHUMACK (1811 - 1849) | |
| Margaret O'TOOLE (1809 - 1879) | ||||
| Elizabeth (Betsy) WILLIAMS (1853 - 1918) | Francis James WILLIAMS (1829 - 1910) | |||
| Margaret LYONS (1832 - 1907) | ||||
| Amy Adeline SMITH | ||||
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Pic P1. Stan Shumack at 'Cooleman' May 1940. Image courtesy of Bert Vest. The photo of Shumack was taken at 'Cooleman', the property of Phil Champion, the day he left to enlist. Pic 1. Stan Shumack at 'Cooleman' May 1940. Image courtesy of Bert Vest. |
| b. 21 Jan 1914 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 22 Sep 1943 at New Guinea aged 29 |
| Near Relatives of Stanley Alexander SHUMACK (1914 - 1943) | ||||||
| Relationship | Person | Born | Birth Place | Died | Death Place | Age |
| Grandfather | Peter (Big Pete) SHUMACK | 16 May 1844 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 14 Feb 1912 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 67 |
| Grandmother | Elizabeth (Betsy) WILLIAMS | 1853 | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia | 15 Feb 1918 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 65 |
| Father | Alexander SHUMACK | 1882 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 1956 | Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia | 74 |
| Mother | Amy Adeline SMITH | |||||
| Self | Stanley Alexander SHUMACK | 21 Jan 1914 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 22 Sep 1943 | New Guinea | 29 |
| Sister | Edna M Y SHUMACK | 1909 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Sister | Dulcie SHUMACK | 1911 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Sister | Dorothy H SHUMACK | 1914 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Sister | Joan SHUMACK | 1920 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Uncle | George SHUMACK | 17 Nov 1870 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 12 Nov 1958 | ACT, Australia | 87 |
| Aunt | Edith May GOZZARD | 07 Aug 1874 | Ginninderra, ACT, Australia | 01 May 1945 | Taralga, New South Wales, Australia | 70 |
| Aunt | Elizabeth Jane SHUMACK | 1872 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Uncle | John SHUMACK | 1874 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 20 Feb 1930 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 56 |
| Aunt | Jane MARTIN | 1875 | Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland | 10 Feb 1942 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 67 |
| Aunt | Margaret SHUMACK | 06 Sep 1875 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 26 Jul 1945 | 69 | |
| Aunt | Minerva SHUMACK | 1877 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Aunt | Frances SHUMACK | 1879 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 1879 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 0 |
| Aunt | Clara SHUMACK | 1880 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 29 Apr 1931 | Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia | 51 |
| Uncle | Evelyn John MCINTOSH | abt 1870 | Majura, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Uncle | Peter SHUMACK | 1883 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 1883 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 0 |
| Aunt | Mary SHUMACK | 1884 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 1935 | Rotorua, New Zealand | 51 |
| Uncle | James Thomas WHITTLE | 1950 | Taihape, New Zealand | |||
| Aunt | Ida Ada SHUMACK | 1887 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Uncle | Edward SHUMACK | 1888 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Aunt | Gladice SHUMACK | 1890 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Aunt | Frances SHUMACK | 1894 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Percy Gordon SHUMACK | 13 Feb 1896 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | Feb 1969 | Ryde, New South Wales, Australia | 73 |
| Cousin | Peter Arnold SHUMACK | 17 Feb 1898 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 24 Aug 1981 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 83 |
| Cousin | Silas Henry SHUMACK | 05 Jun 1900 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 11 Jan 1975 | New South Wales, Australia | 74 |
| Cousin | Edith Elvina SHUMACK | 19 Jun 1902 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 28 Feb 1987 | Victoria, Australia | 84 |
| Cousin | Roy Amos SHUMACK | 24 Jun 1904 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 27 Jul 1976 | New South Wales, Australia | 72 |
| Cousin | Bessie L SHUMACK | Mar 1907 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 09 Jun 1907 | Hall, New South Wales, Australia | 0 |
| Cousin | Brice Benson SHUMACK | 1909 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 31 May 1988 | Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia | 79 |
| Cousin | Wilbur Herbert SHUMACK | 02 Sep 1911 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 26 Jun 1974 | Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia | 62 |
| Cousin | Sidney Cecil SHUMACK | 04 Dec 1918 | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | 20 Jun 1980 | 61 | |
| Cousin | Florence M SHUMACK | |||||
| Cousin | Phyllis SHUMACK | |||||
| Cousin | Doris E SHUMACK | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | ||||
| Cousin | John Francis SHUMACK | 1904 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 02 Jan 1974 | Canberra, ACT, Australia | 70 |
| Cousin | Violet SHUMACK | 1905 | Marrickville, Sydney, Australia | |||
| Cousin | Clara MCINTOSH | |||||
| Cousin | Harold MCINTOSH | |||||
| Cousin | Hilda G MCINTOSH | |||||
| Cousin | John M MCINTOSH | |||||
| Cousin | Thomas James WHITTLE | 1912 | New Zealand | |||
| Cousin | Rhonda Ellen Mildred WHITTLE | 1916 | New Zealand | |||
| Cousin | Living or Recently Deceased | |||||
| Events in Stanley Alexander SHUMACK (1914 - 1943)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 21 Jan 1914 | Stanley Alexander SHUMACK was born | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia | twin | 80 | |
| 22 Sep 1943 | 29 | Stanley Alexander SHUMACK died | New Guinea | Note 1 | 80 |
| Note 1: Died of wounds from sniper fire |
| Personal Notes: |
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Service record https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4852693
http://www.memorial.act.gov.au/search/person/shumack-stanley-alexander Service Details Branch of Service Army Conflict World War II Date of Enlistment 21/05/1940 Place of Enlistment Paddington NSW Personal Details Gender Male Date of Birth 21/01/1914 Place of Birth Queanbeyan NSW (Canberra ACT on AWM Roll of Honour Circular) Address (at enlistment) 'Spring Vale' Weetangerra ACT (also spelt Weetangera) School(s) Attended Weetangerra School Occupation Assistant grazier Next of Kin Son of Alexander and Amy Adeline Shumack, 'Spring Vale', Weetangerra ACT. Burial Place Lae War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea: grave EE.D.4. (Finschhafen War Cemetery: grave A.A.4, on AWM Roll of Honour circular) Unit and Rank Details Service Number NX15987 Final Rank Lance Corporal Final Unit 2/13 Infantry Battalion AIF Fate Died 22 September 1943 aged 29 years, of wounds, New Guinea. Commemoration AWM Roll of Honour, Canberra ACT: Panel 37. St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Reid, Book of Remembrance of Canberra parishioners who died in the war of 1939-45, in recess in south wall of nave. Notes Stan Shumack was a twin who grew up at 'Spring Vale' in the modern-day suburb of Cook. He had polio as a child and that left him with loss of mobility in his right arm, though its strength was not seriously impaired. He and his sisters were mainstays of the Weetangerra Tennis Club which played on a court at 'Spring Vale'. Stan overcame the restrictions caused by polio by playing his tennis double-handed. He enlisted in May 1940 and served with A Company in the 2/13 Battalion in the Middle East from November 1940. The 2/13th, now part of the 9th Division, first confronted the Germans at Er Regima on 4 April 1941 before falling back to Tobruk on 9 April 1941. There they stayed until relieved in December, the men becoming known as the 'Rats of Tobruk'. During October and November 1942 the 2/13 Battalion also fought at the Battle of El Alamein before being sent back to Australia in January 1943 to meet the Japanese threat. After jungle training in Queensland the 2/13 Battalion and the 9th Division were sent to Lae, New Guinea. On the night of 22 September 1943 Shumack and his battalion were to land at Scarlet Beach near Finschhafen, New Guinea when his landing craft became caught on rocks near the beach. Shumack and another man got out to shift the boat but he was wounded by a sniper and died that day - his mother's birthday. In December 1947 the Stan Shumack Memorial Library was dedicated at the Canberra Drill Hall in Kingsley Street. The library, funded by the people of Weetangerra, comprised books on youth leadership and problems and was to be used under the direction of the YMCA. The photo of Shumack was taken at 'Cooleman', the property of Phil Champion, the day he left to enlist. Sources Australia. Department of Veterans' Affairs. World War 2 nominal roll. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Debt of Honour Register. AWM Roll of Honour and Roll of Honour Circulars Rex Cross, Bygone Queanbeyan, revised edition, 1985 (p. 241) Coralie Le Nevez, 'Joan's Tennis Life', 2012 Don Mountain ed. Monumental inscriptions: Australian Capital Territory, including Jervis Bay. Canberra, Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.41) Elizabeth White, 'Shumack Family', manuscript NLA (p.273) The Canberra Times - 5 October 1943, 29 October 1947, 15 December 1947 Image and information provided by his nephew, Bert Vest. World War Two Service Veteran Details Name SHUMACK, STANLEY ALEXANDER Service Australian Army Service Number NX15987 Date of Birth 21 Jan 1914 Place of Birth QUEANBEYAN, NSW Date of Enlistment 21 May 1940 Locality on Enlistment WEETANGERA, ACT Place of Enlistment PADDINGTON, NSW Next of Kin SHUMACK, ALEXANDER Date of Death 22 Sep 1943 Rank Lance Corporal Posting on Death 2/13 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION Prisoner of War No Roll of Honour CANBERRA ACT Honours None for display |
| Source References: |
| 80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/ |
| - Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/3548/alexander-alec-shumack.html (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/3548/alexander-alec-shumack.html (Birth) |
| - Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/3548/alexander-alec-shumack.html (Death) |