Name
Frederick John Sheppard (poss Shepherd)
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/06/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
302371
Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
13th Bn. & Kings Regiment Rifle Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 1 and 2
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Ayot St Lawrence Village Memorial Not on the Ayot St Peter Memorial,
Pre War
Frederick John Sheppard was born in 1898 in Ayot St Peter, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, the only son of James Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Shepherd.
On the 1901 Census Frederick and his mother were living with his grandmother, Emma Sheppard at Ayot Green, Ayot St Peter, Herts. His father was not with them. By the 1911 Census the family were living at 24 Officers Quarters, H M Prison Brixton, London, where his father was a Prison Warder. Frederick later worked as an apprentice.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in in Lambeth in June 1916 and was placed in the Army Reserve serving initially with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps under reg. no. 35332.
He was mobilised in December 1916 and transferred to the Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment. He was killed in action in France during a raid on the enemy trenches.
Additional Information
N.B. The spelling of Sheppard varies. His father received a war gratuity of £6 10s and pay owing of £4 8s 6d. Parents also lived at no. 30 Officers Quarters, H M Prison Brixton and at 145 Dallas Road, Hendon, London.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
