Participant Info

Surname

Shepherd

First Name

William

Initial

Service Number

6616

Rank

private

Unit Served

19th Battalion

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

November 20

Embarkation Year

1917

Embarkation Month

February 7

Date of Death

1918

Month of Death

August 11

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 75, image page 74

Also Known As

Spousal

Mrs. E. M. Shepherd

Spousal Address

Missenden Road, Newtown

Spouse City

Sydney

Spouse State

NSW

Parental Name

Robert and Annie Shepherd

Parental Address

Summer Hill

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Jamberro, February 9, 1881, educated Jamberro Public School, enlisted November 1916, embarked February 7, 1917. War service: France. Private W. Shepherd made the supreme sacrifice, August 11, 1918. (Date of death was 1918, not 1917.) (His enlis