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Tauranga clerk Edgar Francis Sheppard was killed in action during the Second Battle of Krithia at Gallipoli on 8 May 1915.
Edgar Francis Sheppard was born in Tauranga on 2 February 1893 (reg. 1893/1263). His parents were Edward and Mary Louisa Sheppard (nee Vercoe) who had married in 1880 (reg. 1880/2740).
Edgar worked as a Clerk at General Store in Tauranga. He was also in the Rifle Club, a Hauraki Regiment Volunteer and keen sportsman.
He enlisted on 19 October 1914 and served with Auckland Infantry Battalion, 6th Company (Service No. 12/1501). His last rank was Sergeant.
He may have served time as a POW in Bilemedik Pozanti, Turkey.
Edgar was killed in action during the Second Battle of Krithia at Gallipoli on 8 May 1915, aged 22 (reg. 1918/38000).
On 9 May 1917 the Bay of Plenty Times ran the following:
In Memoriam. Sheppard – In loving memory of Edgar F Sheppard (6th Hauraki’s). Killed in Action May 8th, 1915 at Gallipoli. Cover a place where a soldier lies sleeping. Waiting to answer the final roll-call. Inserted by his loving mother, The Camp, Tauranga.
On 19 June 1915 the New Zealand Herald printed:
Private E. F. Sheppard of Tauranga, who was killed in action was the son of Mr Edward Sheppard, accountant. He was for a few years in a lawyer’s office in Auckland but afterwards returned to Tauranga, where he was employed by Mr Ridley’s provision store.”
Sources:
Bay of Plenty Times (9 May 1917).
Births, Deaths & Marriages Online (New Zealand).
Cenotaph Record (Auckland War Memorial Museum).
Fiona Kean (Tauranga Heritage Collection).
Military personnel file (Archives New Zealand).
New Zealand Herald (19 June 1915).
