JACKSON Edward Sheppy

  • First Name(s):
    Edward 
    Sheppy 
  • Surname:
    JACKSON
  • Service Number:
    37938
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Somerset Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Former Units:
    Formerly 222, Army Veterinary Corps.
  • Date of Death:
    29th March 1918
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, France, Grave IV. E. 8.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born Wichenford, Worcestershire, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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JACKSON Edward Sheppy Is Named On These Memorials

Wichenford St Laurence Church
Wichenford Village Hall

Further Information About JACKSON Edward Sheppy

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Edward Sheppy Jackson was born in 1898 at Ridgend farm, Wichenford, one of six children of Henry and Maud (nee Sheppy) who had married in 1894. He enlisted in the Army Veterinary Corps in 1916 and later transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry.

A photograph of Private E.S. Jackson of Wichenford can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 20th April 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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