SHEPHERD Albert

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
  • Surname:
    SHEPHERD
  • Service Number:
    22237
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    10th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    6th April 1918
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, Belgium, Grave V. M. 21.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Stourbridge, Worcestershire, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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SHEPHERD Albert Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge St John’s School now in Stourbridge St John’s Church
Stourbridge War Memorial

Further Information About SHEPHERD Albert

Surname spelt Sheppard on Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Soldiers Died in the Great War.

The birth of Albert Shepherd is registered in the September Quarter 1898 under the Stourbridge Registration District.

Albert Shepherd lived at 30 Mamble Road, Wollaston.  His father was a regular soldier. Albert joined the 10th (Service) Battalion, which saw action on the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele in 1917.  In March 1918 it faced the first German Spring offensive near Cambrai.  It was an overwhelming attack which left the Worcesters facing a long retreat. Many of the wounded had to be left as prisoners of war.  These included Private Albert Shepherd who died of wounds in a German camp.  He is also commemorated on the St. Thomas’s Church memorial.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society. General Register Office birth indexes researched and transcribed by Sandra Taylor.