Sgt Arthur Edward SHEPARD
Forename(s): Arthur Edward
Surname: SHEPARD
Son of Edward James and Alice Louisa ShepardDate of birth: 1895 (approx., calculated)
Date of death: 4 Jul 1918
Age at death: 23 years
IWCP - 13 July 1918 - KILLED IN ACTION, ETC. - SHEPARD. - July 4, died of dysentery, at Dar-es_Salaam, British East Africa, Sergt. Arthur Shepard, Hants Regiment (attached King's African Rifles), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Shepard, 18 New-street, Newport, aged 23.
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Also on this marker:
Carisbrooke Cemetery
Image by: Antony Barton
Inscription
West scroll:CECIL*
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF
CONSTANCE SHEPARD
ALSO CONSTANCE
ELIZABETH SHEPARD
REUNITED 5TH NOVEMBER 1975
AGED 74
[*actuslly, Edward Harold Cecil Shepard]
East book memorial:
IN SWEET MEMORY
left page:
OF A DEAR HUSBAND
AND FATHER
EDWARD JAMES
SHEPARD
PASSED AWAY
NOV. 24. 1945
AGED 75 YEARS
right page:
ALSO
HIS BELOVED WIFE
ALICE MARY
SHEPARD
WHO DIED
MAY 18. 1951
AGED 77 YEARS.
REUNITED
East kerb:
SGT ARTHUR SHEPARD
DIED JULY 4TH 1918 AGED 23 YEARS
South kerb:
EDWARD HAROLD SHEPARD
Transcription by: Tony Barton
