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George Joseph SHEPPERD

Regimental number589
Place of birthMount Clarendon, Queensland
SchoolToowoomba Grammar School, Queensland
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationSchool teacher
AddressDawn, South Street, Toowoomba, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinMiss F B Shepperd, South Street, Toowoomba, Queensland
Enlistment date18 March 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name26th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/43/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 24 May 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)

Military Medal


Work at Broodseinde Ridge on 4 October 1917
Recommendation date: 31 October 1917

Other details from Roll of Honour CircularWounded at Gallipoli and in France; won his Military Medal at Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium. Was killed in action on 3 July 1918'. Details from Annie Mary Shepperd, mother
FateKilled in Action 3 July 1918
Place of death or woundingVillers-Bretonneux, France
Age at death25.6
Age at death from cemetery records25
Place of burialAdelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux (Plot I, Row B, Grave No. 14), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
109
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Son of Samuel George and Annie Mary Shepperd of "Dawn", South Street, Toowoomba, Queensland. Native of Mount Clarendon, Drayton, Queensland
Medals

Military Medal


Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 76
Date: 23 May 1918

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