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A Sheppard . British Army A Sheppard served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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B Sheppard . British Army Royal Armoured Corps B Sheppard served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L/Sgt. Cyril Sheppard . British Army Royal Corps of Signals from Woolston, Southampton. (d.26th Feb 1942) My father, Charles Sheppard, was the eldest brother and missed Cyril very much, I knew he was killed in Burma fighting with the Gurka's under understand, but did not know his rank or that he was part of the Royal Corps of Signals. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetary. These are his details in the Roll of Honour there:
Sheppard, Lance Serjeant, Cyril, 2325420. Royal Corps of Signals. Died 26th February 1942. Age 24. Son of Charles Henry Stuart Sheppard and Minnie Harriet Sheppard, of Woolston, Southampton.
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DPR Sheppard . British Army DPR Sheppard served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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EC Sheppard . British Army 3rd Hussars EC Sheppard served with the 3rd Hussars British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl. George Sheppard . British Army 10th Btn. Parachute Regiment from Horsham My grandad George Sheppard was in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment from about 1930 as we have a picture of him in the regiment's boxing team.
We have a certificate signed in Khartoum saying he left the Royal Sussex in 1936. We have a photo album with pictures of an earth quake in India in 1934 and pictures from Eygpt.
He re-joined for WW2.
We have some medals, his Africa Star, Civil Defence medal and British War medal.
Also his Parachute Regiment para wings. Sadly his red beret was lost by my Nan at some point.
I know he was based in India and Africa.
Unfortunately I know nothing more of where he went during WW2.
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H Sheppard . British Army York and Lancaster Regiment H Sheppard served with the York and Lancaster Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JA Sheppard . British Army JA Sheppard served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Pte. Jack Percival Sheppard . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Jack Shepherd was my Papa (grandfather). He served with the Royal Army Service Corps, and was a POW in WWII caught in Dunkirk. I am desperately seeking information on him. He was a quiet gentle man and a wonderful grandfather. I would love to find out more about his service and time as a POW. He met my Gran in Orpington hospital after release with a heart condition to my knowledge.
Any information would be terrific!
Thank you
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Pte. James Bert Sheppard . British Army 1st Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment from Smethwick (d.11th June 1944) My uncle Bert Sheppard, was my Mum's older brother and, from what little mum has told me, he was her favourite brother. She used to get quite emotional when talking about him, being as he was so young when he went to war and subsequently died, he was actually listed as missing in action.
I do have a grave site number, but I have no photos of him. Mum did have a cut out that was on a wooden stand which she had promised this to me when she passed, but dad didn't handle mum's death very well and burnt this photo. I was absolutely devastated. I would love to know whether Burt received any medals or if his name is on anything. So any assistance or information, big or small, would be greatly appreciated.
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Maj. John Arthur Sheppard . British Army Royal Signals from Chislehurst, Kent My father Jack Sheppard was a telecommunications engineer who worked for the Post Office and later BT. He studied electrical engineering at Kings College London with sponsorship from the army, and during WWII he served in Egypt.
He didn't talk much about that time, although he had fond memories of the Egyptian and Palestinian people, and a cafe in Cairo called El Fishawi.
Of the few stories he told us, I remember, one concerned a retreat by the British Army, during which he had to maintain the communications post and destroy it after everyone else had left, using devices whose premature explosion permanently altered his hairline.
Another was an advance, when he had to set up the communications post after an enemy retreat. He entered what he thought was an empty building and found about a dozen Italian officers having a meal. He took out his revolver, which contained six shots, and prepared to defend himself. Instead he had to accept the surrender of the officers. I believe one or both of these events happened in Benghazi.
Finally, he told us that he had been asked to conduct the British invasion of Turkey. He was provided with one tank, on a tank transporter, a fuel tanker and his own vehicle, and set off through Palestine. Before he could complete this mission, he was advised that political circumstances had changed and told not to invade Turkey.
After he died, we found his regimental sword and a call-up letter from King George VI. Besides telecommunications he was a mountain climber and one of the world's first cave divers.
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Winifred "Penny" Sheppard . Womens Land Army from Orpington, Kent My Mum, Penny Sheppard, joined the Land Army and her Hostel was at Kingham, Nr Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. She once worked at Blenhiem Palace. She worked at many different farms. She's often spoken fondly of the enjoyable times as well as the bad, like girls crying from the cold when brussel sprout picking out in the fields. She didn't think much of any of the farmers she worked for. She said they were all very mean. They apparently paid ten shillings (50p) a day for a Land Girl. In fact she said the POW's did better for food than she did. Even in Summer with double summer time they'd be doing the harvesting and all the farmers gave them (because they were supposed so supply a tea when they worked late) was a cup of cold tea and one thin slice of bread and jam. Even if there was only 10 minutes to go before she'd finished work for the day the farmers would always find something for them to do, even if it was just clearing out a barn or sorting out string. Even if you were ill you had to do something, so normally if you were off sick and not sick in bed you were able to help prepare the food for the evening meal in the kitchen. She had some lovely times though, and meet some great friends in the Land Army. She also had some laughs with the Americans stationed nearby. She used to go to lot's of dances, and can even still remember some of the American's names. You got two rail passes every few months to go home on your weekend off, but if you wanted to go home any more frequently you had to pay for the fare yourself out of your meagre earnings. My Mum hated barley and said it used to get everywhere and no-one ever wore a jumper otherwise you'd never get rid of it, and most girls at some time or another would get barley rash. At threshing you would see all the rats and mice gradually come into the circle into the middle of the field which hadn't been cut and everyone would kill them with shovels or whatever they could lay their hands on. She remembers one farmer, whose son actually married one of my Mum's friend's in the Land Army, who used to go out for the day when it came to the pig's being slaughtered, because he used to get too upset. They used to put them onto straw and then they'd be shot in the head and then set alight to shave all the hairs off them. Mum said not a tiny bit of a pig was ever wasted. She once got stung in the mouth by a wasp and it was a German POW that helped her. The Italians were always chatting the girls up, but were very lazy, but the German's would always be hard working, very polite but kept themselves to themselves when helping out on the farms. She said the PoWs got Ham and chicken whilst the Land Girls had to make do with bread and jam. She remembered one of the Sergeants with the POWs getting very angry about this. The Country hasn't changed much in all those years has it? Still, helping out others more than its own people! She said you were supplied with corduroy breeches, but many girls, including herself, saved up and paid for gaberdine ones instead. There was a photograph of my Mum in a photographers window in Chipping Norton for years apparently in her full Land Army Uniform, together with an American in a separate photo who was head of the Motor Pool, called Joe Morano. I haven't got any pics of Mum in the Land Army, but would love to find one. Even now when we go past a field she can tell me what kind of crop it is growing. She said it was very hard work, but she wouldn't have changed her time doing her bit in the Land Army for anything.
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WJ Sheppard . British Army WJ Sheppard served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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WJ Sheppard . British Army WJ Sheppard served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RWA Shepperd . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RWA Shepperd served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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LA Sherborne . British Army LA Sherborne served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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T Sheret . British Army Reconnaissance Corps T Sheret served with the Reconnaissance Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Pte. Frederick James Shergold . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps from Westbury, Wiltshire Frederick Shergold served in Poona, India with the RAMC.
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F/Sgt Norman Shergold . Royal Air Force from Perry Barr, Birmingham F/Sgt Norman Shergold was at Stalag 357 on 12 March 1945 as he wrote a camp postcard to his mother at 9 College Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, England. His camp number was 1742 and he was in Barrack C6/7.
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WR Shergold . British Army WR Shergold served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Edward Sheridan . British Army 12th Btn. Royal Fusiliers from Hilltown, Newry Edward Sheridan served with the 12th Royal Fusiliers.
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F/O. John Ingram Sheridan . Royal Canadian Air Force 428 (Ghost) Squadron from Toronto ON Canada John Sheridan was a Navigator for 428 Squadron, RCAF flying out of Middleton St. George in 1945.
John died in Oct 2000.
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Leo Sheridan . United States Army 11th Airborne Div, 221 Med Coy from Brooklyn, NY My father, Leo Sheridan, served with the 11th Airborne Division, 221 Airborne Medical Coy in Guam and the Phillipines 1943 to 1945.
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Philip Sheridan . Royal Navy HMS Warspite (d.1941) My uncle Philip Sheridan served on the Warspite, he was killed while on leave in his home town of North Shields while assisting to extinguish fires caused by bombing. This was in 1941. If you knew him I would love to hear from you.
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Tech/5 Philip R. Sheridan . United States Army My great uncle, Philip R Sheridan, was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and taken to Stalag 4B, Muhlberg, Sachsen in 1944, where he remained until the end of the war.
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Capt Richard "Sherry P" Sheridan-Patterson . Royal Navy
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Pte. George Ernest Sherlock . British Army 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from 3 Warwick Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
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SSgt. Donald Sherman . US Army Air Corps 527th Bomb Squadron 379th Bomb Group from Aurora, Illinois My uncle, Staff Sgt Donald Sherman, was a turret gunner. The mission they were shot down on was to bomb a ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany. This day became known as "Black Thursday". I have been told the plane they were in was called "Piccadilly Willy". If any of the other men on this plane could help me with any photos or information I would be eternally great full. I have been told he was shot in the back trying to escape while on the death march close to the end of the war.
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F/Sgt. Eric Hempel Sherman . Royal Australian Air Force 18 Operational Training Unit from Stanhope, Victoria, Australia (d.2nd August 1943) Eric Sherman is the uncle I never knew; he was one of my father's brothers, and he died before I was born. Eric was the 7th of eight children, and he was born in 1923 at Stanhope in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. His parents were Leonard and Anna Sherman nee Hempel. Anna died in 1936.
All of the Sherman children received a good education, but Eric was the first one to get the chance to go on to secondary school and matriculate.
After he left school, Eric worked on the family orchard at Stanhope and cut wood in the Rushworth bush during the down times.
When War broke out, John Sherman joined the Australian Army. Leonard Sherman had served in the British Army in the Boer War. He was a trooper in the 112th Middlesex Co. of the Imperial Yeomanry. It must have been with a heavy heart that he waved one of his sons off to another war, followed by a second son a couple of years later. John returned home, officially in one piece, after serving in the Middle East and New Guinea.
Eric presented at the enlistment office of the Australian Air Force in Melbourne immediately after his eighteenth birthday. So many young men had applied to join the RAAF, so it turned into a waiting game. He made the grade and signed up in January 1942.
Basic military training at Somers in Victoria was followed by wireless and gunner training at Parkes in New South Wales. He was promoted to Flight Sergeant in November of 1942, and shortly thereafter learned he was to be seconded to the RAF in the UK.
Eric landed in England in March of 1943. He spent time at 11 Personnel Dispatch and Reception Centre in Brighton, where he received Air Observer Training, before taking his post at 18 OTU on 7th July. His time there was short, but he did manage to buy a bicycle, took a train to Aberdeen, and went to visit his Scottish cousins.
In the afternoon of 2nd August, 1943, Eric was the wireless operator and air gunner on a training flight when the pilot lost control of the plane. It crashed at Wroot and all four crew members were killed.
Eric Hempel Sherman died a few days before his 20th birthday. His family members at home were devastated when the postmaster at Stanhope delivered the news. Their sadness meant that Eric was rarely spoken of. He was my uncle who died in the war.
As I write this tribute, I remember him, and thank him for his service.
RIP Eric Hempel Sherman 1923-1943. Your niece.
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