Tas. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment of TX4600 Private Shadwick, 2/29 Battalion. He was one of 145 men who were massacred by the Japanese at Parit Sulong on 22 January 1942 during the Malaya Campaign when wounded Australian and Indian soldiers were left behind by withdrawing troops after the Battle of Muar. They were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to surrender all of their belongings including their clothes, which were later returned. The men, now Prisoners of War (POWs) were beaten, tormented and denied food, water and medical attention. At sunset on the night of 22 January 1942, the men were roped or wired together in groups and led into the jungle where they were shot with machine guns, doused with petrol and set alight. Only Lieutenant Ben Charles Hackney and VX52333 Reginald Arthur Wharton survived, feigning death despite repeated brutalities by the Japanese.

The Mercury 9 Feb 1946

SHADWICK.-TX4600 Pte George Henry (George), 2/29th Battalion, AIF, Malaya, beloved eldest son of Tasman and Maud Shadwick, of 117 Howick St., Launceston, and loving brother of Nancy (Mrs F. Clark), Peggy (Mrs F. Arnold), Rex, Peter, and Beverley, aged 23 years; missing, reported dead. February 22, 1942