Name
Arthur Shepherd
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/06/1919
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11450
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl, Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) Corps of Dragoons
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)
Face 1.
India
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath, Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
Born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire in 1894, Arthur was the eldest son of William Charles and Annie (nee Smith) Shepherd. They had seven children, one of whom had died in childhood. Arthur’s parents were married on 19 March 1892 in the registration district of Ware.
At the 1901 census, Arthur was seven years old and living at 16 Admiral’s Walk in Hoddesdon with his parents and three siblings, Herbert, Ernest and Ada. Arthur was at school and his father was a general labourer. William and Annie were 33 and 34 years old and Arthur’s siblings were five, three and nine months old respectively. The birthplaces were given as Howe Green in Hertfordshire for William, Nazeing in Essex for Annie and Hoddesdon for all of the children.
At the 1911 census, Annie was living at 1 School Lane in Bushey with the six surviving children, which then included May and Rose. They were five and two years old respectively and were both born in Bushey. Arthur was working as a domestic gardener. William was not present, but may have been a patient at the Chelsea Convalescent Home at West Hill in St Leonards on Sea.
William died, aged 71, in 1939 and Annie died, aged 69, in 1937, both registered in the district of Watford.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Kilburn with the Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line and served in the Asiatic Theatre as Private 11450 in the Corps of Dragoon Guards (1st Kings Dragoon Guards).
He died of wounds on 15 June 1919 in India. He is remembered with honour on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) and is also commemorated at the Bushey Memorial and at St Peter’s Church, Bushey Heath.
The Registers of Soldiers’ Effects named William and identified three amounts totalling £47 6s. 5d. paid on 31 December 1919.
Arthur’s pension card initially named Annie as his dependant, but her name was later annotated as deceased and replaced with William Charles.
Additional Information
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
