[Index]
Harry (Henry) SHEARS (1894 - 1917)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Harry (Henry) SHEARS (1894 - 1917) Frank (SHEERS) SHEARS (1846 - 1911)











Jane SNADDEN (1854 - 1917) John SNADDEN (1819 - 1893) Andrew SNADDEN (1773 - )
Janet PATERSON (1777 - )
Mary HUNTER (1830 - 1903) Joseph HUNTER (1806 - 1851)
Jean Janet Jane PATTERSON (1803 - 1873)
Harry (Henry) SHEARS
Pic 1. FRANK SHEARS
died 15th March 1911
aged 65 years
also
his beloved wife JANE
died 13th May 1917
aged 63 years
also
Pte Harry SHEARS
killed in Messines, France
9th June 1917
aged 23 years
and
Pte Thomas Frederick SHEARS
killed Villers Bretonneux
9th April 1918
aged 38 years

b. 1894 at Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
d. 09 Jun 1917 at Messines, Belgium aged 23
Near Relatives of Harry (Henry) SHEARS (1894 - 1917)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather John SNADDEN 15 Apr 1819 Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 18 Jan 1893 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73
Grandmother Mary HUNTER abt 1830 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 06 Jun 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73

Father Frank (SHEERS) SHEARS abt 1846 15 Mar 1911 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 65
Mother Jane SNADDEN 29 May 1854 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1917 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 63

Self Harry (Henry) SHEARS 1894 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 09 Jun 1917 Messines, Belgium 23

Brother George SHEARS 1874 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1876 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Brother Francis George John SHEARS 1876 Maitland, NSW, Australia 1878 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Sister Mary Eliza SHEARS 1878 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1963 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 85
Brother Thomas Frederick SHEARS 1880 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 09 Apr 1918 Villers Bretonneux, France 38
Sister Janet SHEARS 1882 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 15 Apr 1972 Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 90
Brother Joseph Hunter SHEARS 1884 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1960 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 76
Brother William Sneddon SHEARS 1887 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1947 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 60
Sister Sarah A SHEARS 1890 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Brother Thomas S SHEARS 1891 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1892 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1

Uncle Andrew A SNADDEN 1842 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1878 Lambton, NSW, Australia 36
Uncle John SNADDEN 1845 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1859 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 14
Aunt Isabella SNADDEN abt 1850 Sauchie, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland bef 1855 5
Aunt Janet Patterson SNADDEN 1856 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1895 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 39
Uncle Peter BLAIR
Aunt Mary C SNADDEN 1858 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1860 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Uncle Joseph Hunter SNADDEN 1863 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1938 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 75
Aunt Jane KIRKWOOD? 1923 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
Uncle Robert Hunter SNADDEN 1865 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1954 Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia 89
Aunt Sarah Mary Josephine SCULLY 1865 Co Tipperary, Ireland 28 May 1919 Marickville, Sydney, NSW, Australia 54
Aunt Mary Jane MCCOLL
Uncle John SNADDEN 05 Jan 1865 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle William Hunter SNADDEN 1867 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 04 Dec 1935 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 68
Aunt Alice Maria RICHARDS 1857 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 20 Dec 1930 Minmi , Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73
Uncle James SNADDEN 1871 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle Thomas SNADDEN 1871 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1960 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 89
Aunt Julia Elizabeth PAUL 1864 Penrith, NSW, Australia 1958 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 94

Cousin Claude BLAIR 1886 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1904 Cobar, NSW, Australia 18
Cousin Janet E BLAIR 1888 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1890 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Peter J BLAIR 1889 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Ethel A P BLAIR 1892 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Veda SNADDEN 1899 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1958 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 59
Cousin Joseph V SNADDEN 1901 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Nicoll KIRKWOOD
Cousin Robert SNADDEN 1886 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1954 68
Cousin Johanna Sarah SNADDEN 1888 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin Thomas S SNADDEN 1891 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1896 Hunters Hill, NSW, Australia 5
Cousin Sarah Millicent SNADDEN 1894 Hurstville, NSW, Australia
Cousin Mary Elizabeth SNADDEN 14 Jan 1898 Hurstville, NSW, Australia 29 Oct 1985 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia 87
Cousin John Adrian Rudolph (Ade) SNADDEN 1888 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1950 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 62
Cousin William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN 1890 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 07 Jun 1917 Messines, Belgium 27
Cousin Lyall Joseph B SNADDEN 1891 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1961 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 70
Cousin Thomas Herbert (Bert) E SNADDEN 1893 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 13 Jun 1967 Wyong, NSW, Australia 74
Cousin Ivy Pearl SNADDEN 1895 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1977 82
Cousin Ruby May SNADDEN 1896 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1896 Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 0
Cousin Francis Maitland SNADDEN 1899 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1976 77
Cousin Elizabeth Taylor SNADDEN 1895 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1957 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 62
Cousin Mary H SNADDEN 1898 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin John (Jack) SNADDEN 1900 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 28 May 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 3

Brother in Law James P HAFEY
Brother in Law James WOOD
Events in Harry (Henry) SHEARS (1894 - 1917)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1894 Harry (Henry) SHEARS was born Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Reg No. 21195/1894 17
15 Mar 1911 17 Death of father Frank (SHEERS) SHEARS (aged 65) Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Note 1 17, 60
20 Dec 1915 21 Military Service Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Note 2 64
1917 23 Death of mother Jane SNADDEN (aged 63) Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Note 3 17, 53, 60
09 Jun 1917 23 Harry (Henry) SHEARS died Messines, Belgium Note 4 53
Note 1: Reg No. 2279/1911
Minmi cemetery Shears Frank 15 Mar 1911 65 yr h/Jane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate 17 March 1911
MINMI
Mr. Frank Shears, who died at his residence, Minmi, on Wednesday, was a resident of Minmi for 35 years. Over two years ago the deceased met with a serious accident In the Duckenfield mine by being run over by a train of empty skips. He never recovered from the effects of this accident, and the cause of his death was the result of same. He was 68 years of age, and at one time took a prominent part in the local miners' lodge, of which he was chairman for a number of years. His funeral took place on Thursday after noon, and was largely attended. The service of the Methodist Church was conducted by Rev,. Stuart Wright. The Ancient Order of Druids and the Man chester Unity Order al Oddfellows, of which deceased was a member, were well represented.
Note 2: Harry SHEARS

Regimental number 564
Place of birth Minmi, New South Wales
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Methodist
Occupation Miner
Address School Hill, Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Mother, Mrs Jane Shears, School Hill, Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 20 December 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 20 December 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 35th Battalion, B Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/52/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 1 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 35th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 8 June 1917
Place of death or wounding Messines, Belgium
Age at death 22.11
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 35), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 126
Family/military connections Brother: 554 Pte Thomas Frederick SHEARS, 34th Bn, killed in action, 9 April 1918.
Note 3: Reg No. 8556/1917
Minmi cemetery Shears Jane 13th May 1912 63yr wFrank

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate 19 May 1917
of the late Mr. Frank Shears, died at her residence, School Hill, Minmi, on Sunday, after an illness extending over nearly twelve months. Mrs. Shears, who had lived at Minmi for 56 years, leaves a family of four sons and three daughters. The sons are Messrs. Frederick, William, Joseph, and Henry, and the daughters Mrs. James Hafey, Mrs. James Woods, and Miss Janet Shears. Two of the sons, Messrs. Frederick and Henry, have been away on active service over twelve months. The funeral took place on Tues day afternoon, the internment being in the Minmi cemetery, the Rev. Mr. Rolph, of the Methodist Church, officiating. Mr. Frank Shears, husband of deceased, died at Minmi seven years ago.
Note 4: Minmi cemetery - Shears Harry 9/6/1917 23y 354 Pte 34 Bn; killed at Messines
Headstone reads:
FRANK SHEARS
died 15th March 1911
aged 65 years
also
his beloved wife JANE
died 13th May 1917
aged 63 years
also
Pte Harry SHEARS
killed in Messines, France
9th June 1917
aged 23 years
and
Pte Thomas Frederick SHEARS
killed Villers Bretonneux
9th April 1918
aged 38 years
Source References:
17. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: NSW bdm register, Title: NSW bdm register
- Reference = (Name, Notes)
- Reference = (Birth)
- Notes: Reg No. 21195/1894
53. Type: Australia Cemetery Index 1808-2007
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: FRANK SHEARS
died 15th March 1911
aged 65 years
also
his beloved wife JANE
died 13th May 1917
aged 63 years
also
Pte Harry SHEARS
killed in Messines, France
9th June 1917
aged 23 years
and
Pte Thomas Frederick SHEARS
killed Villers Bretonneux
9th April 1918
aged 38 years
64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au
- Reference = (Military Service)
- Notes: Harry SHEARS

Regimental number 564
Place of birth Minmi, New South Wales
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Methodist
Occupation Miner
Address School Hill, Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 21
Next of kin Mother, Mrs Jane Shears, School Hill, Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 20 December 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 20 December 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 35th Battalion, B Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/52/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 1 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 35th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 8 June 1917
Place of death or wounding Messines, Belgium
Age at death 22.11
Age at death from cemetery records 22
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 35), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 126
Family/military connections Brother: 554 Pte Thomas Frederick SHEARS, 34th Bn, killed in action, 9 April 1918.