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Wilfred Shepherd

In memory of:

Sapper Wilfred Shepherd

July 1, 1918

Military Service

Service Number:

WR/553614

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Royal Engineers

Division:

Inland Water Transport

Additional Information

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Shepherd, of Wood Island, Grand Manan, New Brunswick.

Commemorated on Page 593 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq

Grave Reference:

VI. F. 21.

Location:

The cemetery is about 8 kilometres north-west of Basra, a town on the west bank of the Shatt-al-Arab, 90 kilometres from its mouth in the Persian Gulf. Note: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission strongly advises that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office should be contacted before attempting to visit Iraq. Their details are as follows:
Travel Advice Unit Consular Division Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Old Admiralty Building
London, England
SW1A 2AF
Tel: 0207 008 0232/0233
Fax: 0207 008 0164

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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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.”

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    Photo of WILFRED SHEPHERD
    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.”

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