Private Edmund Norman Sheppard
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Sheppard,
Edmund Norman
Date of birth: 1889-07-08
Place of birth: Brighton Sussex England
Next of kin: Henry Sheppard, father. High River, Alberta
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address:
High River, Alberta
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Ecoivres Military Cemetery, V. E. 20.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 808427
Highest Rank:
Private
(10th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private, 10th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1916-11-28 to 1917-04-09
- Private (Army). 1916-02-03 to 1916-11-28
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Vimy Ridge: hit in the stomach by a piece of shell, and walked out to the Battalion Dressing Station where he died at about 3.30 a.m. on April 9th, 1917
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 66073
LAC ID:
225826
Service file: B8845-S025
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Henry Norman Sheppard and Isabella Beatrice 'Bee' Sheppard (nee Godden); younger brother of Henry Fleetwood Sheppard (Service No. 18989)
Died at Battalion Dressing Station
Uploader's Research notes: 137th Battalion Nominal Roll Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the 'Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948' database [Private Army Canadian Infantry 137th Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry 10th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2019-06-03