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Marine EDWARD SHEPPARD

Service Number: PLY/21767
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Marines

H.M.S. Capetown.

Date of Death

Died 11 April 1941

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY

2. D. 15.

Sudan

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Amy Sheppard; husband of Dorothy Anna Sheppard, of Wool, Dorsetshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND RISE IN GLORY
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Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY
Sudan
Number of casualties: 842
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