Archibald Cooper Hirst Shaw

Forenames

Archibald Cooper Hirst AWMM

Surname

Shaw AWMM

Service number

• WWII 1030 AWMM
• WWII NZ1030 AWMM
• WWII NZD1030 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1912

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Birth notes

Son of Hugh MacDonald and Mary Brown Shaw (nee Cooper), of Rotorua

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Address before enlistment

WW2 Oturoa Road, Ngongotaha, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Campaign

River Plate AWMM

Armed force / branch

Navy AWMM

Service number

• WWII 1030 AWMM
• WWII NZ1030 AWMM
• WWII NZD1030 AWMM

Military service

• HMNZ Philomel AWMM
• Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW2 Able Seaman/Military AWMM
Royal Navy, HMS Achilles, New Zealand Division AWMM

Son of Hugh MacDonald and Mary Brown Shaw (nee Cooper), of Rotorua

Address details compiled from information in the Casualty lists published in the newspapers. AWMM

Death

13 Dec 1939 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Although hot a Waikato sailor at the time of the action, Able Seaman Archibald C. H. Shaw, of Rotorua, who was one of the two New Zealanders killed on the Achilles, was formerly a resident of Cambridge, from where he enlisted with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy in 1928. Shortly before the outbreak of war he had undergone a course of advanced gunnery in Australia

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Memorial name

• New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport Naval Base, HMNZS Philomel, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Rotorua Citizens War Memorial (World War 2) AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Cambridge Cenotaph, Victoria St, Cambridge 3434 AWMM
• Cambridge World War Two War Memorials AWMM
• Cambridge World War Two War Memorials AWMM

Related objects

External links

• HMS Achilles casualty list. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 14
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19391216.2.134&srpos
  Further Reference
• National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Commemorative Scroll.
  http://navymuseum.co.nz/commemorative-scroll/
  Further Reference
• NZ History online - Battle of the River Plate
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/battle-of-river-plate
  Further Reference
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
  Further Reference

References

• The Evening Post
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.