Roy Stanley Shurmer (1897-1916)

Obituary
Pte. Roy Stanley Shurmer Was Killed. On Monday night, the sad news was conveyed to Mr. John Shurmer that his second son, Pte. Roy Stanley Shurmer, who had been reported as missing on 19th July of last year, was killed. That such was his fate had been accepted by the family all along, but this is the first official intimation. The last letter to hand from the late soldier was written on the 18th July, from France. He had then been carrying ammunition into the trenches, and expected to be fighting there the next day. It was to be his first action. The first and last! He enlisted from here at about the time that the Cootamundra camp broke up, and was only 18 when he made the supreme sacrifice. An elder brother, Lance-Corp. Jack Shurmer, is 'doing his bit' at the front. The Shurmer family are esteemed for their patriotism, and the sympathy of the community is with them in the sad fact that one of the sons at least will not return to them.

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