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Private JOHN HENRY SHEPHERD

Service Number: 16038
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. R. 3A.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Agnes Shepherd, of Casterton, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE AND LEFT LOVED ONES TO MOURN
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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