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Son of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Shepherd, of Wood Island, Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Sapper Wilfred Shepherd
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Sapper Wilfred Shepherd
Wilfred Shepherd's home was on Wood Island, a tiny island in the Bay of Fundy. Leaving family and friends behind, he joined twenty-nine young recruits and travelled by train to barracks in Montreal . Note from a letter home: “2000 soldiers are staying here. We are fitted out like soldiers but of course we get a different uniform when we get to the Old Country . . . I suppose a blue one. We have to drill from eight to eleven each morning but mostly we are having it easy here. There is a soldier’s club, a khaki club and a soldier’s YMCA to go and pass away an evening. Up in the Khaki Club there are all kinds of reading matter, games, piano, a large phonograph and numerous records, pool tables, etc. The soldier’s YMCA is a kind of hall where they show moving pictures. You need not worry about me for I have plenty of clothes, lots of blankets and although the food is not the best, there are plenty of it.”
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Wilfred Shepherd's home was on Wood Island, a tiny island in the Bay of Fundy. Leaving family and friends behind, he joined twenty-nine young recruits and travelled by train to barracks in Montreal . Note from a letter home: “2000 soldiers are staying here. We are fitted out like soldiers but of course we get a different uniform when we get to the Old Country . . . I suppose a blue one. We have to drill from eight to eleven each morning but mostly we are having it easy here. There is a soldier’s club, a khaki club and a soldier’s YMCA to go and pass away an evening. Up in the Khaki Club there are all kinds of reading matter, games, piano, a large phonograph and numerous records, pool tables, etc. The soldier’s YMCA is a kind of hall where they show moving pictures. You need not worry about me for I have plenty of clothes, lots of blankets and although the food is not the best, there are plenty of it.”
BASRA WAR CEMETERY Iraq
The cemetery is about 8 kilometres north-west of Basra, a town on the west bank of the Shatt-al-Arab, 90 kilometres from its mouth in the Persian Gulf.
Note: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission strongly advises that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office should be contacted before attempting to visit Iraq.
Their details are as follows:
Travel Advice Unit Consular Division Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Old Admiralty Building
London, England
SW1A 2AF
Tel: 0207 008 0232/0233
Fax: 0207 008 0164
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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