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Military service
Service number:
WR/553614
Age:
22
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Division:
Inland Water Transport
Death:
July 1, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. F. 21.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Shepherd, of Wood Island, Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Sapper Wilfred Shepherd
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Photo of WILFRED SHEPHERD
Wilfred Shepherd's home was on Wood Island, a tiny island in the Bay of Fundy. Leaving family and friends behind, he joined twenty-nine young recruits and travelled by train to barracks in Montreal . Note from a letter home: “2000 soldiers are staying here. We are fitted out like soldiers but of course we get a different uniform when we get to the Old Country . . . I suppose a blue one. We have to drill from eight to eleven each morning but mostly we are having it easy here. There is a soldier’s club, a khaki club and a soldier’s YMCA to go and pass away an evening. Up in the Khaki Club there are all kinds of reading matter, games, piano, a large phonograph and numerous records, pool tables, etc. The soldier’s YMCA is a kind of hall where they show moving pictures. You need not worry about me for I have plenty of clothes, lots of blankets and although the food is not the best, there are plenty of it.”
Digital gallery of
Sapper Wilfred Shepherd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 593 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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