Name
Sidney William Sheppard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Sidney Sheppard appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish and census records suggest only one possible man of this name who could have served, and he was born on October 13th 1893 to Alfred Thomas and Elizabeth Shepherd (née Walker). If this is the right man, then he would have been twenty at the outbreak of war. Baptism and census records list eleven children, but by 1911 one had died. In all it would appear that three brothers served and survived - refer to Harry Sheppard for more family details.
In 1911 the family home was around Little Green. Sidney, then seventeen, was living with his parents and working as an undertaker’s apprentice.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
